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VMware: Unmount a datastore/volume from an ESXi Server at command line

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these steps describe the steps to unmount an datastore from an ESXi host. If you tried it with the GUI and you got an error:

The resource ‘my_esxdatastore’ is in use. Cannot unmount volume ‘esxdatastore_F00’ because “One or more virtual machines are still registered on it”.
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Powershell: Working with a SQLite Database

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SQLite Databases are widly used, even Windows uses for the organisation of its Appx Packages a SQLite database. This database is located in the file C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\AppRepository\StateRepository-Machine.srd.

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Windows: Open Registry Editor regedit.exe at a given key

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regedit.exe does not accept any command line parameters for opening a given key.
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Windows: Open search index option GUI

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search index GUI is not an exe file. The GUI resides in an DLL. To open it you have to call it by rundll32

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Windows: Internet Explorer set open as default action for a file extension

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the following steps describe how to  open a file with a specific file extension in Internet Explorer without showing the open/save dialog. In this example a the URL http://myintranethost.local/data/doc.pptm should open the PowerPoint Viewer without any interaction.

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