Windows – ‘Telnet’ is not recognized as an internal or external command
KB ID 0000455 Problem Telnet client from Windows, and have it as an “Optional Extra”. For most people that’s fine, but for anyone who programs network devices, or needs to test that ports are open, or test mail flow by telnet to port 25, that’s a pain. Solution Enabling Telnet – Windows 10 1. From PowerShell execute the following command; dism /online /Enable-Feature /FeatureName:TelnetClient Enabling...
Windows – “Windows Explorer Stops Working” When you open Control Panel
KB ID 0000457 Problem Seen today on four brand new Windows 7 machines. Whenever you attempt to open the control panel, you see the error message, “Windows Explorer has stopped working” And the event log yields no clues, it does log an Event ID 1000, but that does not seen to help much? Solution Essentially this error is caused by a .cpl file that Windows does not like, these are control panel applets (small programs), we...
Windows – Location Based Printing with con2prt
KB ID 0000510 Problem Yes these days we would prefer to use GPO or GPP to do this, but some printers simply refuse to be farmed out this way, and a lot of clients don’t want to install their network printers in that manner. Con2prt is a very old piece of software it’s part of the Windows NT4 ZAK (Yep it’s that old!). Its purpose in life is to connect clients to printers. So how can we do that based on location? We...
Windows – Force into Safe Mode or”Cannot Boot into Safe Mode”
KB ID 0000521 Problem With modern PC’s, the boot time is a LOT less than it used to be. There was a time when you would have a few seconds to press F8 when a Windows machine started and it would boot to “safe mode”. Now even with the reflexes of a fighter pilot, you are hard pushed to press the key before it says “Starting Windows”. Solution 1. Boot Windows normally, and in the search/run box type...
You have been logged on with a temporary profile”
KB ID 0000033 Problem After renaming (because you didn’t want to lose the profile) or deleting a user profile, from the “users” directory. You will see the following error when you attempt to log on as the deleted user; Error: You have been logged on with a temporary profile You cannot access your files and files created in this profile will be deleted when you log off. To fix this, log off and try logging on...
Windows Server – DHCP Service Starts then Stops again
KB ID 0000617 Problem Saw this last week on an SBS 2011 Server. When attempting to get the DHCP service running it span up then stopped straight away. Solution A quick look in Event Viewer showed me what the problem was, Event ID 1054 The DHCP/BINL service on this computer is shutting down. See the previous event log messages for reasons Fair enough lets see the previous error on the same server; Event ID 1053 The DHCP/BINL service...
Windows – Get a List of all Installed Programs (and Updates)
KB ID 0000619 Problem I needed to get a list of installed programs from a server I was having problems with, so I could compare the results with another server. Note: This will work on Windows client OS’s as well. Solution 1. On the machine in question launch a command window. 2. To display all the installed programs execute the following two commands; WMIC product get name,version 3. To export all the installed programs to a...
Windows – Using the Same Keyboard and Mouse Across Multiple Machines
KB ID 0000621 Problem Here’s the setup I have on my desk at home, When I’m working from home and my laptop is docked (as shown). I wanted to use my main keyboard, (Logitech G15) and mouse (Cyborg R.A.T. 9), to control both the main PC and my work laptop. As it turned out when I finished I could also use the laptop keyboard and touch pad to control the main PC as well, and I could drag and drop files between desktops....
Windows – Backing up, Transferring, and Restoring Wireless Network Settings
KB ID 0000626 Problem If you have a machine setup and working on your wireless network, sometimes it’s easier to set other machines up by simply migrating the settings. Either because you don’t want your child to try and type in a 64 bit WPA key, or you might simply have forgotten the WEP/WPA key,and don’t want to go through all the hassle of setting it up again. In a small business environment you can give your...
Windows – System Hung applying updates ‘Stage 3 of 3 Preparing to configure Windows…’
KB ID 0000640 Problem I installed a classroom full of PC’s today, after setting them all updating, and rebooting, I went to lunch, and came back to find them all displaying this, Stage 3 of 3 Preparing to configure Windows. Don’t turn off your computer. I went and did another room, came back, and there was no change. Solution It turns out this is a known problem if you are installing KB2533552, to get round the problem...