Take Ownership and Grant ‘Full Control’ Recursively
KB ID 0001200 Problem I had a bunch of old user profile folders I needed to delete today, When setup properly even the domain administrator can’t get in there and delete them; If it’s just one folder then simply take ownership, grant yourself rights and delete it! But I had a lot of folders so I needed a more robust (read less work) solution. Solution Take Ownership of all Folders/Sub-Folders, and Files Open an...
Windows Firewall – Enable ‘Ping’ / ICMP Echo Reply
KB ID 0001134 Problem By default all modern distributions of Windows come with their client firewall enabled. Which is a good thing, most corporate networks simply disable it using the rationale that they have a corporate firewall and security software etc. Again thats fine, but what if you want to leave it on, and still be able to ping that host to see if its alive. Solution The firewall exception is already written for you, you...
Microsoft Autoroute Install Errors (Windows 8)
KB ID 0000686 Problem I only use Autoroute once a month, (when I put my mileage in at work!). So this month I had a head slap when it was one of the bits of software I had forgotten to install on my freshly rebuilt laptop. So I fired up the setup for Autoroute 2007 and it failed. So I moaned and was furnished with a shiny new copy of Autoroute 2011. But when I tried to install it, this happened. Microsoft Autoroute 2011 Setup One of...
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 – Adding Unallocated Drive Space “From the left”
KB ID 0000678 Problem On my Windows Dual boot machine I wanted to give some more drive space to the Windows 8 installation. After shrinking the Windows 7 volume, I found out that I could not extend the Windows 8 partition to take up the free space. If the unallocated space was on the right of my partition it would have been fine. Solution This is a problem with Windows and cannot be done via ‘Disk Management’ or using...
Windows – Run Commands and Command Line Shortcuts
KB ID 0000828 Problem One of the advantages of launching applications form the ‘Run box’ is, no matter where Microsoft move things to in the graphical interface, they rarely change the commands. So when Windows 8 came out and there was much gnashing of teeth, I just ran the same old commands I used to run, and wondered what all the fuss was about! Solution Below is by no means a complete list, but is a collection of stuff...