Category Archives: Windows knowhow

Howto do some things in Windows

Windows: Start a cmd.exe with system rights

Hi,

since Windows 2008 and Windows Vista it is no more possible to start a cmd.exe with system rights by using the (Task)Scheduler.
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Windows: Remove a trigger from a service

Hi,

since Windows 7 respectively Windows 2008R2 it has the ability to start a windows service with a trigger. Some Services, like dnscache, starts or stops on demand.

A customer had the problem that sometimes, after an automatic restart (on idle) of the DNS Client Service, Windows won’t register its name in DNS anymore. A manual register with
C:\> ipconfig /registerdns
was necessary each time.
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Windows: Query Active Directory Site information

Hi,

short post today:-)

nltest is a builtin tool in Windows to query lots of AD information.
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Windows: Equivalent to linux time command

Hi,

the time command in Windows gets or sets the system time. If you need an equivalent to the linux time command – which measure the execution time of a given command – you can use the powershell commandlet Measure-Command. Limitation is that only the time can measure how long the command execution runs, not splited into user, system and realtime.
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Windows: Enable Bitlocker without a TPM module

Hi,

by default Bitlocker could only activated when a TPM chip is physically present.

If you want to use Bitlocker without a TPM module you must change your (local) policy. Open the Group Policy Object Editor (gpedit.msc), navigate to
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