I troubleshooted a peculiar problem today and to implement a workaround for that issue, I have to disconnect wireless at the time of logoff. I did some search in google and the below command helped me.
netsh wlan disconnect
Btw, this command is Vista/Windows 7 compatible. I am not sure about other operating systems. I did some more research and came across bunch of commands using which we can manage wireless on windows 7 computers very easily.
I came across a nice service which makes the task of following up with other parties very easy. The advantage with this service is it works through email; that means you can create/read follow-ups anytime anywhere. Visit http://www.followupthen.com/ to know more about it. Btw, I started using this
I have seen this problem randomly on my windows 7 computer. After close observation, I found that DRAG and DROP won’t work from low privileged window to High privileged window. I generally run a command prompt with administrator and try to drag drop items from my explorer to the elevated command prompt. Since the elevated command prompt is running in high privilege mode, and my explorer in low privilege mode, drap-drop from explorer to cmd is not working. Whereas same operation to a normal command prompt is working without any issues since it is in the same privilege mode as my explorer.
I hope this small briefing helps you come out of drap-drop dilemma.
Btw, command prompt appears like below when it is in high privilege mode.
“How to audit local administrator password on list of servers using a script”– this is the question I have seen in one of the forums I participate. The requester asked for a way to read local administrator password on a server and compare it with the standard password and report deviations if any. While this sounds like a good algorithm to audit, I wonder how one can “READ” passwords of any account in Windows Operating System. But still requirements are requirements and we need a way to address them.
After thinking for sometime, I recollected one of the old tricks I have used during my initial days of system administration. “Accessing of other systems resources(like C$) works if the source(from where you are trying to access) and target systems are running with same local administrator password”. That means you should login to system with local administrator password and then you should be able to manage remote systems if they have same password with which you logged into the current one. I felt why can’t I use this to audit the administrator password.
I quickly wrote a powershell script(code below) of few lines and tested. It worked like a champ. So, what I am trying to do here is, accessing the c$ share of remote computer. This works if the remote computer password is same as the one with which I logged into current computer; otherwise it fails. Is n’t it enough to audit the admin rights and identify the computers which are not having the correct password? I feel this should be good and quick.
I came across a couple of RAID disk space calculators day before yesterday and thought of sharing them. They basically helps you to figure out the usable space you get out of your available disks when configured under a particular RAID level(say RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, etc). It also gives sufficient information about each RAID level like no. of disks it should have etc. Another good thing is, they are available online. So you can connect and calculate anytime. Below are the links.
Have you ever experienced the scenario where you kept your PC under build and waiting for it to complete by sitting ideal in front of it? How about a facility which allows you to access application like IE, RDP, command prompt, task manager, etc while the system build is actually in progress? It’s possible in windows with a key stroke when the build is in GUI mode.
After you see build entering the GUI mode, press SHIFT + F10and it will present you with a command prompt. From there on you can start the windows basic applications like iexplore.exe, taskmanager.exe using start from command prompt like below. I tested this on Windows 7 and works like a champ. Btw, this is a pretty old cheat that I used during windows XP installation almost 6 years ago.
C:> start iexplore.exe
C:>start taskmanager.exe
Hope this little tip helps you. I used this to see few log files while my build scripts are running for debugging purpose. With this I caught the errors early and took appropriate action without waiting for build completion.
Do you know any way better than this? Please share.
Today I enabled Outlook cached mode for mailbox and it started Syncing all my email items. But one thing I couldn’t understand is, in what order it is syncing the folders. I got to see few mails urgently and that folder is not yet synced. I quickly searched in internet and came across a simple trick to force sync the folder I required.
It is very simple, just select the folder that you want to Sync and press SHIFT+F9. Outlook will start Syncing your folder immediately.
ILO(Integrated Lights-out) is a technology that enables system administrators to remote control the server even when it is powered down. After reading my previous post on same ILO topic, one of my X-colleague contacted me for some readymade script which he can use to get the ILO version information. There this script took birth.
This scripts gets the ILO version of given remote server.
Windows+E opens explorer, Windows+R starts run, and Windows +D shows desktop, etc….. Do you want to know all the keyboard shorts in windows 7? Hmm I also looked for it this morning and stumbled on below link which has the complete and segregated list.
OS keyboard(On Screen Keyboard) helps you to type in letters when your physical keyboard is not functioning. This is not a new feature in windows 7, XP also has it but in Windows 7 it enhanced a bit.
To launch OS keyboard in windows 7 just type “osk.exe” in Start->Run. You should see keyboard like below.
