Category Archives: Windows knowhow

Howto do some things in Windows

Windows: Installation of msxml4 failed. Could not register type library for msxml4.dll

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short post after Summer vacation 🙂 A customer had the problem that he couldn’t install msxml4 sp3.

During installation the setup could not register type library C:\Windows\SysWOW64\msxml4.dll.
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Windows: Enable generation of 8.3 Names

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in newer Versios of Windows the generation of the DOS Style 8.3 names is only enabled for Drive C: for all other volumes it is disabled by default.
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VMware: Execute scripts by Invoke-VMScript as Administrator

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this post addresses the issue that, when Windows UAC is enabled, you could not execute scripts with elevated Administrator permissions by PowerCli’s Invoke-VMScript. In my opinion when I execute scripts on VMs in more then 80% of these cases I need elevated user rights.
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Windows: Activate Administrator access over Network

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since Windows Vista the access from network for members of the local Administrators group is restricted by default.
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Powershell: Determine the image type (x64/x86) of an exe file

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based on this stackoverflow post I’ve written a powershell function to determine the image type of an Windows executable. The Powershells System.IO.FileSystemInfo type does not provide such an info.
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