Windows tips, howtos, scripts
Hello,
yesterday a customer had the problem that he wants an old printer, a HP LaserJet 5M, to get running on 15 Windows 7 clients. Unfortunately Windows has no driver on board and the manufactorer didn’t provider anyone.
For many old printers you can install a driver via Windows Update. Go to the Control Panel, Device & printers and add a new printer
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This posts descripes how to change the power plan in Windows or a single option in a sheme from the Windows command line.
First of all start a cmd command shell with administrator rights.
To get a list of all available shemes run
c:\> powercfg /L
Existing Power Schemes (* Active)
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Power Scheme GUID: 381b4222-f694-41f0-9685-ff5bb260df2e (Balanced) *
Power Scheme GUID: 8c5e7fda-e8bf-4a96-9a85-a6e23a8c635c (High performance)
Power Scheme GUID: a1841308-3541-4fab-bc81-f71556f20b4a (Power saver)
The most options to powercfg at the command line must be specified with the GUID. To set the “High performance” plan active determine the sheme GUID and execute
c:\> powercfg /S 8c5e7fda-e8bf-4a96-9a85-a6e23a8c635c
Query again und you see the other plan is active
c:\> powercfg /L
Existing Power Schemes (* Active)
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Power Scheme GUID: 381b4222-f694-41f0-9685-ff5bb260df2e (Balanced)
Power Scheme GUID: 8c5e7fda-e8bf-4a96-9a85-a6e23a8c635c (High performance) *
Power Scheme GUID: a1841308-3541-4fab-bc81-f71556f20b4a (Power saver)
Let us supose we only want to modify a single option or value. For example, disable the “Allow hybrid sleep” value in sheme “Power Saver” and with AC power active. Then, you first have to query all of the content of a sheme, because we need the GUID as parameter for powercfg. The output is a long list of options, I redirect them in a temporary file, because in the file it is easier to search for the necessary GUIDs.
Continue reading Windows: Changing the power plan or a single value in a sheme
Hi,
this is a list of the tools that I daily use with Windows.
Sysinternalssuite – Process Monitor, Process Explorer, TCPView, psexec Tools => very useful
Regalyzer – Advanced Regedit for Windows
CPU-Z – Info Tool for detailed CPU/RAM Information
GPU-Z – Info Tool for GPUs
Microsoft LogParser – Analyse csv, tsv Logfiles, EventLogs…with SQL Commands
Diskwipe – Disk Cleaning Tool for Windows
Eraser Portable – Disk Cleaning Tool for Windows
DBAN – Linux live CD to clean a disk
NVSPBind – command line tool to change network bindings/order
PuTTY – ssh client, ssh file copy….
KiTTY – fork of PuTTY with some additional features
Microsoft Visual Studio Express for Windows Desktops – IDE for Windows
Notepad++ – Editor
PowerGUI – Powershell IDE
WinMerge – Compare Text files
Strawberry perl – Perl distribution with many modules and an included c complier to install and built modules from cpan
VirtualBox – Running different Operating Systems as guests Find phone , with an installed extension pack you can passthrough USB2 devices.
to be continued…..
Michael