Category Archives: Windows

Windows tips, howtos, scripts

Powershell: Import a module from a file

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you just want to test a module and don’t want to install or copy it to the Powershell Modules directories? It’s possible 🙂

For example the SpeculationControl module to query the speculation control (Spectre/Meltdown vulnerability) settings of your system.
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Windows: Manual upgrade to a new feature version

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if you want to Update your Windows 10 installation to a new feature level, such as 1803, 1809… there are 3 possiblities.
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Windows: Export EventLog from command line

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Windows has a builtin command line utility to deal with Eventlogs: wevtutil

Some examples.
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Windows: Extract image from wim

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the install.wim file from newer Windows 10 Consumer DVDs is greater than 4GB and exceeds the maximum filesize of a fat32 formated USB Stick. Therefore the simplest way to created a bootable USB device is no longer possible.
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Windows SCCM: Software center could not be loaded

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the SCCM Software Center presents an empty Software List and the error message:

Software center could not be loaded
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