Category Archives: Windows knowhow

Howto do some things in Windows

Windows: Install Failure: Error 997. Overlapped I/O operation is in progress

Hi,

a customer tries to install .NET 4.6.2 and it ends up in error. Errors in the installer log:
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Powershell: Method not found: ‘System.Threading.Tasks.Task System.Threading.Tasks.Task.Run(System.Action)’

Hi,

when you tried to start powershell and the window opens and closes immediately.

Open a cmd and start powershell by calling powershell.exe
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Windows: Explorer.exe Server execution failed

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a customer had the problem that he couldn’t start the explorer. The explorer runs in an timeout and pops up an Errormessage: Server execution failed
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Windows: Cancel Bits transfers from other user

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if you try to remove bits transfers initialted from SYSTEM or from other users you get an Access Denied (Unable to cancel job – 0x80070005) error.
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Windows: Cleanup Permissions from deleted Active Directory Objects

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in domain environments it sometimes happens that user or groups would be deleted but is still authorized on many object, i.e. filesystems, shares etc..

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