Category Archives: Windows knowhow

Howto do some things in Windows

Powershell: Determine the image type (x64/x86) of an exe file

Hi,

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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Windows Server 2012 R2: Cannot install role Remote Desktop Services

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Issue: You try to install “Remote Desktop Services” role and it ends in error “unable to connect to powershell remoting“.
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Windows 8.1: Installing .NET 3.5 Framework

Hi,

installing .NET 3.5 on Windows 8.1 differs from install other feature because you have to specify the location of the files to being installed.

To install .NET 3.5 you need access to a Windows 8.1 DVD especially the \sources\sxs folder.

Let us assumed your CD drive letter is D: then you have to call:
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Windows: Change Password Utility

Hi,

in Active Directory Domain environment you have to frequently change your password.

The default Windows methods usually does not support clipboard operations. So you have to enter your new password two times and depending on your method your old password too 🙁 .
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Windows: Cannot activate Intels Smart Response Technology

Hi,

a customer of mine has bought a new PC (Fujitsu Esprimo P956 E94+) with an 256GB SSD and 5TB Harddisk and he wants to use the SSD as accelerater (Write/Read cache) for the 5TB Disk.

Newer Intel Chipsets support such a configuration. It is called Smart Response Technology.
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