Operating System – Page 2

Change a value in a remote registry

With this script, you will be able to change a value in a remote registry (remote computer names listed in a host file). The registry value type can be the following (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.win32.registryvaluekind.aspx) : String ExpandString Binary DWord MultiString QWord $file

Resolve the CBS.log file size problem

System File Checker is a utility in Windows that allows users to scan for corruptions in Windows system files and restore corrupted files. The exe file, sfc.exe, generates a log file called %windir%\Logs\CBS\CBS.log. The Sfc.exe program writes the details of

Get the regional settings with Powershell

Sometimes, it can be useful to get some informations through command line instead of using the GUI. It is the case for the regional settings. If you want to compare the regional settings between two user accounts, you can both

Local Security Authority cannot be contacted

Symptom While connecting on a Windows Server 2012 using RDP you might notice the following error: Remote Desktop Connection: An authentication error has occurred. The Local Security Authority cannot be contacted Cause This is probably due to the cached account

Remove local user profile

I have found a great script to remove local profile to a remote or a local machine. I have added two features to this script : list only the “non loaded” profile possibility to remove all profiles The first point

Windows : Can’t delete a folder with a trailing space

Recently, I have received this error message while deleting a folder tree : The cause is a trailing space in the folder name. The only to delete this folder is to run this command : rd “\\?\G:\folder_with_a_trailing_space “ I have

Generates a full-memory minidump of a process

The original source of this function is available on Github here You can use this function to generate a process dump file using Powershell. function Out-Minidump { [CmdletBinding()] Param ( [Parameter(Position = 0, Mandatory = $True, ValueFromPipeline = $True)] [System.Diagnostics.Process]

Get the server uptime in days with WMI

This script gets the Active Directory server uptime in days using WMI. The WMI class used is Win32_OperatingSystem I have used the New-Timespan to calculate the uptime (difference between the current date and the last Windows boot up time). [TimeSpan]$uptime=New-TimeSpan $LBTime

Get GDI handles by process

This script requires Powershell 3.0 This script get the number of GDI handles by process Script : $global:sig = @’ [DllImport(“User32.dll”)] public static extern int GetGuiResources(IntPtr hProcess, int uiFlags); ‘@ Get-Process | select ProcessName -Unique | ? {$_.processname -notmatch “Idle|System|svchost”}

Query remote servers for installed hotfix

This script query all servers in a specific OU and running on Windows Server 2003 and check if a specific hotfix is installed or not. Script (with Microsoft Active Directory module loaded : import-module activedirectory) : $server_list = Get-ADComputer -searchbase