Microsoft Windows is a family of operating systems. Originally a graphical addon for Microsoft DOS, Windows is now the dominant family of operating systems on the desktop. Today there are several branches of Microsoft Windows: Windows, for desktops, notebooks, netbooks and tablets Windows ...
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How to fresh install Windows 7 Ultimate over Windows 7 Home Premium [closed]
I bought a HP dv7t quad-core edition laptop last week with Windows 7 Home Premium. I own a licensed copy of Windows 7 Ultimate and wanted to do a fresh install since I did not want to pay HP to do the ...
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apache virtual hosts issue on windows - please explain
This problem has never occurred in the past (i have tried this many times) but this time,
ALL virtual hosts defined in the virtual-hosts.conf file in the apache installation directory direct the ...
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Group policy results failing with “Invalid class” error
When trying to run the Group Policy Results Wizard against a specific workstation, I'm getting the following error:
The wizard was unable to generate the computer or user's data due to insufficient ...
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What is the sequence of Windows RPC ports 135, 137, 139 (and higher ports)? What changes with Port 145?
Can someone explain when and how often each of the Windows RPC ports are used? The "core" ones I understand are:
Port 135
Port 137
Port 139
Higher ports that are published by Port 135's "catalog"
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Creating a windows 8 virtualbox image doesn't work. VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED error occurs
I'm trying to create a Virtualbox image of windows 8 consumer preview. I tried this tutorial: http://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/how-to-install-windows-8-on-virtualbox/
I did exactly what was ...
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How to run KVM on non-X environment with Windows 2008 as a guest
I has a debian wheezy OS. And it's a non-X environment, but we just wanna install a windowns 2008 on it.But we couldn't install a X environment on my debian.
Could any one tell me howto?
Thanks!
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Restore GRUB after Windows installation (Arch Linux)
After installing Windows 7 Ultimate x64 on a machine running Arch Linux the MBR became rewritten (I do not think GRUB has been uninstalled). Arch is now unbootable except if I use the live-CD to boot, ...
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Windows Server 2008 R2 shares inaccessible
We have a windows 2008 R2 server (File / Print server). All share are accessible but with no reason the shares are not accessible anymore for windows 7 clients / printing isn't possible also. After we ...
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ipv4 to ipv6 proxy solution other then netsh
I've been using netsh interface portproxy for ipv4-to-ipv6 proxy-ing. This works fine, except that I need something to listen on more than just a single IPv6 address, because the address on the server ...
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How to keep log / keep record of one particular Process
In my Task Manager, there is one process (.exe)
I want to keep log or keep record of that process i.e how much cpu % it is utilizing for a particular time \ Day.
for example :- abc.exe process
Can ...
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Updating scattered old copies
I want to update all the presentation files in my Windows Network Drive, the problem is each such file was copied by almost anyone who used this presentation to his own folder on the Network Drive.
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Can't ping a DNS zone on windows server 2008 R2
I´ve just configured a windows server 2008 r2, but got a lot of problems on DNS role.
Let me talk about the server configuration:
name: fdserver
IP address: 192.168.0.10
I have a DNS zone called ...
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Can't locate Bugzilla/Search/Recent.pm in @INC
Software error:
Can't locate Bugzilla/Search/Recent.pm in @INC (@INC contains: . lib C:/Bugzilla/perl/perl/lib C:/Bugzilla/perl/perl/site/lib) at CGI.pm line 30.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ...
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Different versions of iperf for windows give totally different results
Measuring TCP output from a Windows client to Solaris server:
WXP SP3 with iperf 1.7.0 --> returns an average around 90Mbit
Same client, same server but iperf 2.0.5 for windows --> returns an average ...
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access is denied after domain admin password change windows 2003 [closed]
I changed the Domain Admin password (Windows 2003 DC, DNS)
when i run to the ip of my client PC (XP SP3) getting an error Access Denied
but if i run the machine name it works fine
but i am using the ...
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Starting wireless LAN connection service before the Windows Login [closed]
Previously, I was connected to the router by wire. Now I must connect using a Wireless card.
This is OK, however, I want the card connected to the WAP before I login to Windows (winXP Pro). I need ...
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How to setup a multi-server network for a web application [closed]
I am experienced with development, but not with servers and networking. I am developing an application and stability is critical. What I am wondering is how my network should be structured and how it ...
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RDP ts port redirection
I have 2 pairs of serial devices (a scale and a POS pin pad) hooked up to 2 pcs (4 serial devices in total) with windows xp embedded sp3 (x86) running RDC/rdp 6.0. I am using those machines to RDP ...
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Track bandwith usage by application
I have a server at Rackspace and noticed my server is suddenly sending out 2GB of data per month (this is atypical since I don't use it that much)
How can I figure out what application is using that ...
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Is WinSAT reliable to test the speed of my iSCSI, Fibre SAN, under bare metal or Virtualized?
I discovered the following command in this whitepaper:
WinSat disk -read -ran -ransize 4096 -drive c
Is it reliable to use against a SAN, or iSCSI drive? I would like to compare the output of ...
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Git repository migration from windows to linux
I have migrated from repository hosting on WindowsServer+GitAspx to CentOS+git+apache,
trying to clone i get errors with packfile index SHA1 mismatch on every .pack file
Anyway to fix that or rehash ...
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Win 7 error - no disk in the drive ---what is the solution? [closed]
Your answer perhaps explains why it happens, but does not explain what to do about it. Pretend I have only basic computer skills and I want to stop displaying this error message. It occurs multiple ...
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Definitive fool-proof steps for 0MQ / ZeroMQ and Java on Windows 7? [closed]
Moved from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10762093/definitive-fool-proof-steps-for-0mq-zeromq-and-java-on-windows-7#comment13989453_10762093
I've been trying to use 0MQ in my Windows dev ...
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Data transfer between servers extremely slow
I have an application running on a Live environment with a Web Server which is running Windows Server 2008 R2 with a QuadCore Xeon processor with 8GB of ram and a Database Server with the same ...
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How does one access shares on a domain computer using a local account with the netlogon service deactivated?
For reasons outside of my control, netlogon has to be disabled on a specific server. That server also happens to be on the domain.
I need to be able to remotely access a share on the box using a ...
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1answer
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130s timeout when accessing service exposed on HTTPS through HTTP
I have windows client application and windows service hosting a web service over HTTPS (on behind it uses standard http.sys). Everything is ok except the situation where user makes a mistake and uses ...
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1answer
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How to map Windows ACL to Linux ones on a CIFS share?
Context
We have a Windows server with an Active Directory domain and a network share.
I have a Linux machine and I want to mount the share.
sudo mount -t cifs //server/share /mnt/share -o ...
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Strange connectivity issues between workstations and Servers
I have a situation whereby there are 3 sites.
Site a - User site
Site b - User site
Site c - datacentre
Site a can talk to site c fine
Site b can not talk to everything in site C
In particular, ...
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1answer
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Accessing Share Resources in WIndows 2008 Sever
I am facing some issues while accessing share resources with in the network. For Exapmle
I am having two windows 2008 R2 server's with IP 192.168.1.1 and 192.168.1.2. If i share a folder then i am ...
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How do I run bat file inside cmd using tash scheduler
How do I run bat file inside cmd using tash scheduler. I've tried this one
C:\windows\system32\cmd.exe C:\synchronization.bat
And doesn't working.
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How do you apply development practices like version control, testing and continuous integration/deployment to system administration?
Imagine you're going to manage a number of servers with a number of different services that's used by a number of people. Now say you want to reconfigure or replace some software on one of those ...
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1answer
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Is MySQL VSS “Safe” Yet?
From what I'm reading, there's plenty of statements that MySQL is at least partially VSS (Volume Snapshot Service) aware, with caveats etc. but all of the things I can find online regarding this are ...
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How to export all System event logs of a definite time period
I am working on a Windows Server 2003 SP2 with Powershell v2, and I am looking for a way to export all System event logs of a definite time period, (say, from Saturday 2000 hours to Sunday 1100 ...
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Cant request computer certificate
Using MMC with the snaping of certificate I am requesting certificates from a brand new installation of a CA.
Requesting User certificates, I works perfectly.
Requesting Computer certificates it ...
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Do I really need a 128GB pagefile
I'm running out of space on one of my servers and the only space that I can free in the immediate is re-sizing the enormous pagefile. The server has 128GB of memory and is currnetly set to ...
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Identification of unused slot in IBM server
How to identify the unused free slot for both memory and disk in IBM server
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How to access Virtual Machine in LAN with proxy
I have setup a website in a virtual machine running in VMWare Workstation (Trial).
I need to access that website in our LAN network. But there is a proxy on our the LAN.
When I try to access the ...
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Is there a Windows equivalent of Unix 'CPU steal time'?
In order to assess performance monitoring accuracy on virtualization platforms, the CPU steal time has become an increasingly relevant metric - see EC2 monitoring: the case of stolen CPU for an ...
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Removing an orphaned AD domain: “a referral was returned from the server”
Note: the problem has been resolved, the admin of the parent domain managed to remove the DC object. I gather he used ADSIEdit.
I'm working with an AD forest (in an isolated test environment, ...
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Is it safe to add Hyper-V role to a Windows Server 2008 R2 already running on production?
Sorry for the newbie question, but I could not find an answer for it.
I have a Windows 2008 R2 Server in production running some applications, and I need to create a Virtual Machine to run a very ...
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1answer
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Word 2010 creates multiple processes… sometimes
I've run into a strange behavior when I migrated our users from Office 2007 / Vista to Office 2010 / Windows 7 (all 32-bit). They use a web based document management system called NetDocuments which ...
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XAMPP/PHP on Windows
I am running XAMPP on Windows Vista. XAMPP is a ~one year old install with all default options.
I wrote a script in PHP that will do a web crawl and place data in mysql. I placed ...
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Internet Sharing solution
I have a client that is a business. The people at this business are not in anyway computer savvy. I was asked to make a file server for them. This server will need to have four shares with a ...
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Host website through VPN
Is it possible to host website through VPN by using windows and IIS? And if so how do I do that?
How do I deal with the problem that more then me might use the same IP of the VPN provider?
Edit: To ...
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A user in multiple user groups not receiving correct permissons
A little intro: I'm not a server admin, but I do some tech support for a small software company whose product requires users to have full control permissions to a mapped drive on the server in order ...
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self-service password reset [closed]
Does anyone have experience with Namespace myPassword? or any other products ?
We are looking at password reset solutions and was wondering your thoughts on any vendors in this field.
Thanks.
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apache reverse proxy configuration in windows [closed]
with reverse proxy configuration for an application all links are working properly but only help link is giving blank page.It is generating only 2 requests instead of 22 requests internally.
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Distributed Clipboard with drag-and-drop text and file support? [closed]
I am a SQL Server DBA administering several servers. I typically have an RDP session open to several SQL servers throughout the day. As I work, I often need to get text (DML/DDL/etc..) from one RDP ...
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Apache dies when I run ImageMagick in PHP
I am running:
WampServer 2.0
Php 2.3.0
Apache 2.2.11
ImageMagick 6.7.7-0 2012-05-17 Q16
Windows XP
.net Framework 3.0
I recently was able to hack together an install of imagemagick into the above ...
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How to block the Java installer?
We send PC's out to customers that need a very specific version of Java installed; specifically 6.26. I already disable the Java updater but I was wondering if I could block the customer from ...