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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.

After saving changes you can close file and you are done!

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

If you are looking for quick way to get information about remote system this how to is for you. I present you network scan tool – Winfingerprint. This tool is designed to gather information about Microsoft systems and applications. It can use RPC, ICMP, SMB, SNMP, TCP and UDP to obtain various information. You can quickly get information about remote OS version, users, groups, SID, password policies, services, shares, disks and much more.

You can read more about this tool here .

Tool can be downloaded from this location .

This post will show you the way how to reset IP stack on your Windows server 2003 or Windows XP machine. Lets say we want to reset IP stack and write log to C:\resetlog.txt file. Note that log file is not optional parameter. To perform reset open command line and type:

netsh int ip reset C:\resetlog.txt

This post will show you how to run Network Diagnostics scan to test your network connectivity and troubleshoot related issues. I personally run this tool first thing every time i troubleshoot network related issues on client system. To run scan open command line on your Windows XP and type:

netsh diag gui

In “Network Diagnostics” windows select “Set scanning options” to set or unset various scanning objects that will be tested during scan.

To start scan press “Scan your system” button.