Capture a Network Trace without installing anything (& capture a network trace of a reboot)

Capture a Network Trace without installing anything (& capture a network trace of a reboot)

If you need to capture a network trace of a client or server without installing Wireshark or Netmon this might be helpful for you. (This feature works on Windows 7/2008 R2 and above). The short version: 1. Open an elevated command prompt and run: “netsh trace start persistent=yes capture=yes tracefile=c:\temp\nettrace-boot.etl” (make sure you have a \temp directory or choose another location). 2. Reproduce the issue or do a reboot if you are tracing a slow boot scenario. 3. Open an elevated command…

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Windows Autologon Tool

Windows Autologon Tool

Autologon enables you to easily configure Windows’ built-in autologon mechanism. Instead of waiting for a user to enter their name and password, Windows uses the credentials you enter with Autologon, which are encrypted in the Registry, to log on the specified user automatically. [!WARNING] Although the password is encrypted in the registry as an LSA secret, a user with administrative rights can easily retrieve and decrypt it. Autologon is easy enough to use. Just run autologon.exe, fill in the dialog, and hit…

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How to completely remove printer driver on Windows 10

How to completely remove printer driver on Windows 10

If you’re a mobile user working with a laptop, there’s a good chance you connect to many printers in different locations, which you may only use once or twice. As a result, after a while, you can end up with many printers installed on your computer without realizing it. Of course, you can delete the devices you don’t need using the Settings app. However, you may not know that deleting a printer doesn’t delete its driver from Windows 10. They will…

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How To Delete User Profile in Windows 10

How To Delete User Profile in Windows 10

In this article, we will see how to delete a profile for a user account without deleting the account itself. This will allow you to reset all preferences and settings for all apps and Windows for a specific user. A user profile is a set of files and folders to store all the personal preferences, app settings, documents and other data. Every user account has an associated user profile. Usually, it is stored in the folder C:\Users\Username and includes a…

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Giới thiệu User Logins, Server Roles, Database Schemas trong SQL Server

Giới thiệu User Logins, Server Roles, Database Schemas trong SQL Server

I. User Logins SQL Server cho phép người dùng có thể tạo tài khoản và đăng nhập vào. Mỗi người dùng đều truy cập vào trong SQL Server qua 1 tài khoản riêng. Khi tạo 1 tài khoản người dùng mới, quản trị viên sẽ cấp cho tài khoản này các quyền(Server Roles) và phạm vi có thể truy cập(Database Schemas). Tạo tài khoản Đăng nhập thử tài khoản mới II. Server Roles Để giới hạn mức độ truy cập…

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Delete your Office Document Cache and PendingDeletes folder

Delete your Office Document Cache and PendingDeletes folder

The Office Document Cache is used by the Microsoft Office Upload Center to give you a way to see the state of files you’re uploading to a server—keeping track of how uploads are progressing and whether any files need your attention. You can manage the Office Document Cache settings by customizing the settings in the Microsoft Office Upload Center. The safe way to clean up WinSxS is with Windows’ Deployment Image Servicing and Management (DISM). Running the following in an elevated CMD…

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Create a Dummy Printer on Windows 10

Create a Dummy Printer on Windows 10

1. Open Settings > Devices > Printers 2. Click + to add a new printer > wait for Discovery to finish and click ‘ The Printer was not listed ‘  3. Select ‘Add Local Printer’ > Next > Use an existing Port – Drop down and set COM1 > Next  4. Select a Generic Driver > Generic / Text only > Set a memorable placeholder name

How to stop Google Chrome from automatically redirecting to HTTPS

How to stop Google Chrome from automatically redirecting to HTTPS

1. In a new browser tab, enter URL: chrome://net-internals/#hsts 2. Scroll down to “Delete domain security policies” and enter the domain that you don’t want automatic redirection. Then click the Delete button. 3. If the problem still exists, try to clean the browsing data/cache by going to Settings => Privacy and security.

How to Delete a SharePoint Site

How to Delete a SharePoint Site

New SharePoint sites are easily created in Microsoft 365, but sometimes a bit too easy. I often see a lot of unused SharePoint sites in SharePoint online. Users accidentally created two sites for the same project, or just wanted to test something out. So sometimes we will need to delete SharePoint sites to keep our environment cleaned up. It’s important to check if SharePoint sites are not used anymore before we can delete them. And this can sometimes be a…

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How to Enable Remote Connections in SQL Server 2014/2012/2008

How to Enable Remote Connections in SQL Server 2014/2012/2008

When you try to connect to a SQL Server instance from a remote computer, you might receive the following error message: Cannot connect to SQL Server.An error has occurred while establishing a connection to the server. When connecting to SQL Server 2008, this failure may be caused by the fact that under the default settings SQL Server does not allow remote connections. (provider: SQL Network Interfaces, error: 26 – Error Locating Server/Instance Specified) (Microsoft SQL Server) After installing SQL Server,…

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