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Windows 10 – SMB Guest access denied by default
Windows 10 now, by default, denies an SMB client from connecting to an SMB server with “guest access”. See: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4046019/guest-access-in-smb2-disabled-by-default-in-windows-10-and-windows-ser The temporary fix is to change the registry to allow guest account access With windows regedit I set : HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanWorkstation\Parameters … Continue reading
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Windows 10 – Creating Image for Windows to Go external disks
In 2018 we started using “Windows to Go” on externally boot-able disks to provide the “windows” half of a dual-boot mac. To make this work you need to do the following … 1) Purchase really fast external SSD drives of … Continue reading
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Windows – Finding the right Windows ADK
When building a Windows PE (Preinstall Environment) or prepping systems to be imaged and cloned you are going to need a set of tools in the Windows ADK (or older versions of Windows AIK). The trick is that you have … Continue reading
Windows – Group Policy Debugging
Logged into the computer and/or account that is misbehaving: gpresult /h <path>outputfile.html (open the resulting html file with a browser …) There are ways to do this remotely as well … Details at: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/gpresult
Windows 10 – Check for service status and restart if not running
from: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3325081/how-to-check-if-a-service-is-running-via-batch-file-and-start-it-if-it-is-not-r for /F “tokens=3 delims=: ” %%H in (‘sc query “MyServiceName” ^| findstr ” STATE”‘) do ( if /I “%%H” NEQ “RUNNING” ( REM Put your code you want to execute here REM For example, the following line net … Continue reading
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Windows 10 – Get Windows Update Log
Apparently windows 10 changed the windows 10 log format and you now need to run a power shell command to generate the log file as a text file that normal humans can read. Open Powershell with “Run as Administrator” give … Continue reading
Windows 10 – System-wide File Type Associations
List current filetype associations with these two different commands: ftype or assoc Change or create new ones: Open an elevated command prompt. Use FTYPE {fileType}={commandString} to create a file type and associated command to open the file. Use ASSOC {.fileExtension}={fileType} … Continue reading
Windows 10 – Clean Boot
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/929135/how-to-perform-a-clean-boot-in-windows Use msconfig to disable all non-Microsoft “Services” and “Startup” from starting After booting clean, use msconfig to set your computer back to “Normal” boot.