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In our lab, we had a few machines with different Windows Update problems. Some PCs don’t accept anything from our WSUS server, some others seem to have other problems that prevent Windows Update from working. I ran the system and MS troubleshooters, but the problems weren’t solved. In all cases, the OSes seem to be healthy. Solution I had a long investigation phase, but I … Continue reading HOWTO reset Windows Update client
Introduction Suddenly this Monday, the PC hosting the bug tracker site jumped from Win10 1611 to 1709. At the end of the upgrade process, the site was not available anymore. IIS seemed up and running, but something occurred and put the site offline. Looking at the event log, I saw swarms of the following errors: Error 2307 – IIS-W3SVC-WP The worker process for application pool … Continue reading IIS is not working anymore after a system upgrade
NTFS file system has the ability to compress files and folders to save disk space. The only drawback is that they will be read and written slower than the normal ones. Windows File Explorer displays them in blue instead of black, and it allows you to compress or expand by right-clicking them and selecting ‘Properties’ and then ‘Advanced’. Suppose that you have to compress a … Continue reading HOWTO compress a folder by command line
Sometimes, it may occur to discover a dead Control Panel item, after having uninstalled a program. It’s something annoying, but it can be fixed manually. Removing the dead item To remove it, open the following registry location and look for the proper item: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ControlPanel\NameSpace If you don’t find anything, give a look at this other registry key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ControlPanel\NameSpace In these registry keys, you will find … Continue reading HOWTO remove dead items from Control Panel
Several weeks ago I had the following issue while running the Disk Cleanup utility: It detects the wrong cleanup space on Windows Update Cleanup point. After some investigations, I found this post explaining the problem. To make a long-story short, one of the applied updates has broken one or more of the hardlinks present in Windows Component Store folder. After some other investigations, I discovered … Continue reading Windows 10 – Cleanup disk 3.99 TB
Sometimes you may need to upgrade or regenerate an SVN repository, because it may be outdated and/or damaged. After some investigations, I discovered that it is possible by a simple batch file like the following one: :@echo off set svnadm=”<path>\svnadmin.exe” set repo_out= “<full pathname of the old repository>” set repo_in=”<full pathname of the new one>” set file_dump=”<path>\repo.dump” %svnadm% dump %repo_out% > %file_dump% %svnadm% load %repo_in% … Continue reading HOWTO Upgrade a SVN repository
To create an NTFS link, you need to type the following commands into a ‘Command Prompt‘ window with administrative rights. Hardlink (files only): mklink /h <link_name> <file name> Junction (folder only): mklink /j <link_name> <folder name> Symbolic link (file): mklink <link_name> <file name> Symbolic link (folder): mklink /d <link_name> <folder name> For more details about NTFS links, you can see the following links: Hardlinks & … Continue reading How to create NTFS links from command line
Open LibreOffice Writer and load a file. If it’s a .doc or .docx file, it should load the document without problems with the exception of TOC. v5.1.4 still seems to have some problems during the import phase. To fix it: right-click on TOC, and select ”Edit Index table…“. on the right side put a ‘ ‘ (one blank) or anything else you wish to use … Continue reading How to create PDF files with bookmarks
A few months ago, my WSUS server stopped working. From investigations, the problem seems to be that WSUS downloaded content folder consumed all dedicated partition free-space. Searching on the web, I found several suggestions, but the most suitable was to delete superseded and expired items. You can find one of the most interesting threads here. Although WSUS console offers cleanup options to remove these items, … Continue reading WSUS – How to keep local content folder under control