Category Archives: Windows knowhow

Howto do some things in Windows

Powershell: Change language/culture settings for the current session/window.

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different language settings on your clients causes some administration issues when you are working with times (formats) or group names for example.
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if you want to delete the recovery partition, for example due to expand the C: drive you have to disable the recovery environment first. Disable means the Menu entry from the Bootmenu is removed.
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all registry keys have an default value. The default value cannot be set by its name “(Default)”, it must be set with specific option of reg.exe.

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by default .NET does not uses TLS Version 1.2. So if you disable all SSL/TLS versions lower then 1.2 .NET application could not establish a secure connection anymore.
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the internet explorers security zones affects more windows components then the internet explorer itself. For example the Windows File Explorer or the Windows Powershell.
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