If there is a directory, whether a built-in directory (such as Music, Documents, Desktop, etc.) or a directory you create, that has become corrupted and undeletable, you’ll need to take ownership and change the ACLs on that directory.
Use these 2 shell commands. You’ll want to start the command prompt in administrator mode.
1.takeown /f directory_name /r /d y
2. icacls directory_name /grant administrators:F /t
Now you can use the rd command to remove the offending directory
You can brand your terminal server with your company’s logo so that employees will know they are connecting to the right place.
The image you select will appear behind the login screen. Simply create a BMP image file and add the path to the registry here:
HKEY_USERS\.Default\Control Panel\Desktop\Wallpaper
You have a folder with a large number of files that you need to delete. This is too much for Windows Explorer to handle.
FastCopy (it also deletes files fast)
It took several hours but FastCopy was able to delete 948,102 files without slowing down the server at all.
You try to connect to a server or shared folder and get this message:
Multiple connections to a server or shared resource by the same user, using more than one user name, are not allowed…
You already have a connection to that resouce using a different username.
Disconnect your other connections then try again. Open a command prompt and type:
net use * /delete
Here is a handy resource when a virus/spyware wrecks your file associations. Common problems are executing .exe files and the “run with…” dialog box pops up.
After loging in on Windows Vista, you receive this strange message telling you to reinstall windows to activate it.
Follow these instructions, rather than attempting to reinstall the OS.
1) Open Internet Browser
2) Type %windir%\system32 into the browser address bar.
3) Find the file CMD.exe
4) Right-Click on CMD.exe and select ‘Run as Administrator’
5) Type: net stop slsvc (it may ask you if you are sure, select yes)
6) Type: cd %windir%\ServiceProfiles\NetworkService\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\SoftwareLicensing
7) Type: rename tokens.dat tokens.bar
Type: cd %windir%\system32
9) Type net start slsvc
10) Type: cscript slmgr.vbs -rilc (It may take a long time for this to complete, please be patient)
11) Reboot Twice
12) You may be required to Re-Activate. Use the Activate by Phone method outlined above
If you are setting up a dedicated Windows 7 Media Center machine you will not want to have to find your keyboard to log in when the machine is rebooted.
Open Regedit and Navigate to the following registry key:
Note that if no DefaultPassword string is specified, Windows automatically changes the value of the AutoAdminLogon registry key from 1 (true) to 0 (false) to turn off the AutoAdminLogon feature.
If your profile sub folders [Desktop, Favorites, Games, Links, Music, Pictures, Videos] become corrupted, deleted, or unattached, here is a great place with links to registry files that will help you get the problem solved. http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/148461-personal-user-folder-restore-missing-folder.html
Ever wanted to block some websites in either of the mainstream browers in Windows without having to purchase filtering software, or mess around with the /etc/hosts file?
Refer to http://jaxov.com/2009/08/how-to-block-websites-in-internet-explorer-and-mozilla-firefox/
If you have many VPN connections like me, the idea of taking 6 clicks to open the Vista connection menu and connect to a VPN is a bit tedious. Not to mention that if you have more than 10 connections set up, the selection window takes forever to load. You can keep the frequently used icons on the desktop but not all 25 of them.
Create a desktop shortcut to C:\Windows\System32\rasphone.exe
This will open the selection window with a drop-down list of all available connections.
This trick also works for Windows XP.
