Windows License / Key Activation Key issues
Click Start and type CMD in the Start Search menu Right Click and choose Run as administrator To remove any existing product key (in case you used a trial key), enter and run the command /upk . Clear the product key from registry by running /cpky To enter your new…
Windows 10 VPN error – computer must be trusted for delegation
Error: Can't connect to <VPN Name> The requested operation cannot be completed. The computer must be trusted for delegation and the current user account must be configured to allow delegation Problem: When setting delegation access on the computer or user account it makes no difference. To resolve this issue create…
Find out which Process or PID is using a particular port
Recently a customer’s phones had stopped receiving email while their email clients on the pc’s were still working fine. Time to investigate what's going on! First some simple troubleshooting, can I get to the exchange server externally using either telnet on port 25 to the companies MX record (or external…
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…
Make Windows Shut Down Services Quicker
Here’s a simple little tip to help shut down Windows quicker. Recently I was help speed up a Vista laptop and after all was repaired and cleaned up it still took ages to shut down. This was basically because Windows was waiting for various services to stop. To speed this…
Empty / Delete all users Recycle Bins
Here’s a useful little command which helps me clean up the recycle bins on 2008 Terminal Servers:Open up a Command Prompt by either clicking the Start menu then typing cmd into the search box, or the Start menu then Run, type cmd and hit Enter/open. (For Win7, Server 2008, Server…
Access is denied, unable to remove device
I got a call today as a user couldn’t print to a certain network printer which was rolled out via a group ; Because of this the printer cannot be removed in the same way as a local printer due to insufficient get around this and instead of moving the…
Map network Drive using credentials
If you have a script used to map a network drive and need to use credentials for what ever reason, the network share isn't on a domain, you can use a simple script in your batch file: @echo off rem The line below will delete any existing mapping to the…