Category Archives: Windows knowhow

Howto do some things in Windows

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

Hello,

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

Hi,

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

Hi,

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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Windows: Start WiFi/WLAN Network Connection Dialog from command line or C#

Hi,

to start the Windows Wireless Connection Dialog from a command shell use the following command line
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