Removing corrupt Volume Shadow Copies VSS
Howdy all, here’s a nice little one for you and a nice little space gainer. One of my clients servers was running low on space so I checked the Shadow Copies. While are good and do have their uses, if they’re not configure correctly or cleared once in a while…
Hidden folder – Greyed out attribute
Simple little one this for some reason a clients main Data folder was Hidden, no idea why but some people were obviously complaining that they couldn’t see the folder. Looking at the folder properties the “Hidden” attribute was greyed out. Because of this we need to change it using a…
User_Feed_Synchronization Task Corrupted
So today I was doing a test system restore for which I’ve created a few scheduled tasks for. As soon as I opened the Task Scheduler I receive this nice error and find that they haven’t been running as they should! oh ;“User_Feed_Synchronization-{F8C0E1F9-4AEA-B54A-882848717549}: The task image is corrupt or has…
Task Scheduler Result Codes
A useful little list of the Task Scheduler result codes so you can translate them:0 or 0x0: The operation completed successfully. 1 or 0x1: Incorrect function called or unknown function called. 2 or 0x2: File not found. 10 or 0xa: The environment is incorrect. 0x41300: Task is ready to run…
How to open a Command Prompt
To open the Command Prompt ( Be careful this is a very powerful tool, not for the faint hearted )Click the Start Menu and in the ‘Search programs and files’ box type cmd and hit click the Start Menu and click ‘Run’, in there type cmd and hit Ok or…
How to open Registry editor
To open the Registry editor ( Be careful this is a very powerful tool, not for the faint hearted ) Click the Start Menu and in the ‘Search programs and files’ box type regedit and hit Enter or click the Start Menu and click ‘Run’, in there type regedit and hit…
Stop a running process from command prompt
A user kindly clicked on one of those nice fake Anti Virus Pro links today, and surprise surprise he then couldn’t run any programs, Outlook, Task manager, msconfig ; Excellent! So I had to look to finding the little process, stop it and then remove it. Luckily I was able…
Windows Update error 80072EDF or 80070057
While trying to update a new clients server I received the following error code 80072EDF This basically means that the server cannot contact the update server. First I opened a command prompt (Start-Run & type cmd and then open) and ran netsh winhttp reset proxy This will remove the proxy…