Category Archives: Windows knowhow

Howto do some things in Windows

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

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to start the Windows Wireless Connection Dialog from a command shell use the following command line
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Windows: Prevent from release a DHCP lease on shutdown

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Windows by default releases the DHCP lease on shutdown. This is not useful if you often have to boot Windows and you want (if possible) the same IP Address Windows has before booting.

By default Windows interprets DHCP Option 2 submitted by the DHCP Server and if this is not set it release the lease.
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Windows: Finding a driver which leaks memory

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if your system runs out of (physical) memory and no process could be identified who is allocating the memory, the paged- or nonpaged pool could also have an high memory load.
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Windows: Using deduplication on a volume

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since Server 2012R2 Windows has the ability to enable deduplication on volumes. This means Windows can find identically blocks on a volume and create references to them. So the block is just stored one time.
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Windows: Setup a WSUS Server for Windows 10 Clients with Feature Support

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in this post I will describe all steps to install a Windows Update Server at top an a Windows Server 2012R2 to fully support the Windows 10 Feature updates.

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