Windows: Enable or disable Internet Explorers Developer tools

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the Internet Explorer is shipped with its own Developer Tools for developing, analyzing or modifing Websites in real time.

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VMware: Windows Guest VM does not boot due to Error 0xc000186 ntoskrnl.exe

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in some circumstances a Windows guest VM does not boot and stops with Error:

  • Stoperror: 0xc000186
  • Boot critical file C:\windows\system32\ntoskrnl.exe is corrupt.

 
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Windows: Shrink a wim file

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the install.wim of Windows 10 iso Images which contains multiple OS Versions is usually greater then magic 4GB broder.

Therefore it is not possible to copy this file to an FAT32 formated USB Stick because FAT32 has a file size limit of 4GB.
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Windows: Cleanup files from WSUS which are no longer needed

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the content of an WSUS Server crows every month for several GiBytes because WSUS does held all files which has the approval state “install”.
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ESXi: Cannot start VM. Invalid MAC address specified. 12:34:6:78:90:12 is not an allowed static Ethernet address

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VMware vSphere does only allow to set MAC Addresses from the Range 00:50:56:00:00:00 up to 00:50:56:3f:ff:ff. You can set a static MAC out of this range but cannot start the virtual machine. The typical error message is:

Invalid MAC address specified. 12:34:6:78:90:12 is not an allowed static Ethernet address. It conflicts with VMware reserved MACs.
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