Category Archives: Windows knowhow

Howto do some things in Windows

Windows 20H2 : No sound (Intel HD Audio) after feature/branch upgrade

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a customer have some issues with the sound of its notebook (Medion) after upǵrading to Windows 20H2.
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Windows: Certificate locations

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the Windows certificates MMC plugin allows to view and edit the most (expect the enterprise store) of the certificates Windows uses. But the location of the certificates is not really transparent.

Here is a list where those certificates resides physically.
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Windows 10: Solve start issues

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when you transfer your Windows 10 Installation to another PC or disk and you get an error
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Windows: IIS is disabled but Windows still listen at Port 80/443

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a customer had the problem that he disables the IIS service (w3svc) but Windows still listens at port 443.

D:\> sc query w3svc
SERVICE_NAME: w3svc
        TYPE               : 20  WIN32_SHARE_PROCESS
        STATE              : 1  STOPPED
D:\> netstat -an|findstr /i 443
  TCP    0.0.0.0:443            0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING

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Windows: Bring an Application/Program back to the main screen

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when you run your Laptop/Notebook in different environments, with one Screen or two screens or more then 2 screens, it sometimes happens that an application is openend on a screen which is currently not connected and therefore the application is not visible at the desktop, just in the taskbar.

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