This post will show you how to start “Administrative Tools” via Run on your Windows computer. To start Administrative Tools press “Start” > “Run” and type:
control admintools
Press “OK” and you are Done!
This post will show you how to remove invalid boot paths from boot.ini file on your Windows machine.
To do it press “Start” > “Run” and type:
msconfig
Press “OK”.
In “System Configuration Utility” window press “Check All Boot Paths” button.
Computer will check all boot paths and will remove invalid ones.
After check restart your computers and you are Done!
This post will show you how to start “Certificate Manager” via Run on your Windows computer. To start Certificate Manager press “Start” > “Run” and type:
certmgr.msc
Press “OK” and you are Done!
This post will show you how to reinstall Internet Explorer on your Windows computer. Note that you will need Windows install CD or Windows install files on your disk to reinstall internet explorer.
To perform reinstal press “Start” > “Run” and type:
rundll32.exe setupapi,InstallHinfSection DefaultInstall 132 %windir%\inf\ie.inf
Press “OK” and browse to Windows install CD or files on your disk to start reinstall.
This post will show you how to start “Event Viewer” via Run on your Windows computer. To start Event Viewer press “Start” > “Run” and type:
eventvwr.msc
Press “OK” and you are Done!
This post will show you how to block unwanted web sites by editing hosts file on your Windows computer. Lets say you want that all computer users were unable to browse web site named www.badsite.com .
To block web site click “Start” > “Run” and type:
notepad c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
Note that there is space between notepad and c:\windows…
In “hosts” file select empty row and type:
127.0.0.1 www.badsite.com
On “hosts” file menu click “File” and and select “Save” to save changes you just made.
This post will show you how to disable automatic restart when system error occurs on your Windows computer. If this option is enabled you are unable to view Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) output and to check system error code for further investigation.
To disable auto restart right click mouse on “My Computer” icon and choose “Properties”. In “System properties” window select “Advanced” tab.
In “Advanced” tab click “Settings” under “Startup and Recovery” section. In “Startup and Recovery” window uncheck “Automatically restart” option.
Press “OK” and You are done!
This post will show you how to list IIS 7.0 websites on your Windows server 2008 using command line tool appcmd .
Appcmd tool is used to query, create and configure IIS 7.0 server properties, web sites and application pools.
To list all web sites on IIS 7.0 open command line and type:
appcmd list sites
Done!
This post will show you how to open secure command line on remote Windows server 2008. All communications between client and remote host will be encrypted by Kerberos or NTLM keys. Lets say we want to connect to server named “testserver”. To do it open command line on your Windows server 2008 and type:
winrs -r:testserver cmd
This post will show you how to clear up Winsock Catalog on your Windows server 2003 or Windows XP machine. To do it open command line and type:
netsh winsock reset
Restart your computer after this.
Note that you might need to run IP reset afterwards to completely rebuild your IP stack.
? Winsock catalog – is the interface between your applications and internet. Many spyware reside there when they infect your OS.
This post will show you how to create full system backup of your Windows server 2008 using command line. Lets say we want to create full system backup and place it to network share \\Backupserver\Data . Open command line and type:
wbadmin start backup -backuptarget \\Backupserver\Data -allCritical -vssFull
This post will show you how to renew certificate in Windows Vista OS. To renew certificate:
Press Start > Run, type certmgr.msc and click OK
Select certificate you want to renew
On menu click Actions > All Tasks
Select:
* Renew certificate with New Key
or
* Advanced Operations > Renew this certificate with the same key
Follow wizard to complete renew process