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…
Register dll in Windows 7 (64bit)
Afternoon all, I’ve been installing a 3rd party product which requires a dll registered in windows. Normally I’d move the file to c:\windows\system32 and then run regsvr32 ‘filename’ and all would be well, not so in Windows 7 64bit, I receive this error:So quick and simple, you need to move…
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…
Windows 7 activation failed on HP machine
Activation failed on one of my clients HP Desktops, it had been activated during the initial install and had been ok for months. I can only assume that a Windows update or something similar had caused ’s a few handy commands to help you reactive Windows on your a command…
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…