Tag: windows

All the articles with the tag "windows".

• Funny Out-of-memory error

  7 Dec, 2015

  Accidentally opening a large file in Sublime Text via Total Commander's F4 key consumed all available RAM, causing VirtualBox to fail.

• PowerShell Registry Set-ItemProperty gotchas

  9 Jun, 2014

  Documents undocumented Type parameter behavior in Set-ItemProperty and how to correctly read and write typed registry values.

• PowerShell 3 - Attempting to perform the InitializeDefaultDrives operation on the FileSystem provider failed

  5 Jun, 2014

  Fix for a PowerShell 3 startup error caused by disconnected network drives, resolved via a registry key change.

• Windows Task Scheduler silently fails

  5 Jun, 2014

  Diagnoses why a Task Scheduler task silently fails when run without a logged-on user due to unavailable mapped network drives.

• Task Scheduler Event IDs

  15 May, 2014

  Reference table of Windows Task Scheduler event log IDs and their corresponding task lifecycle categories.

• C__PowerShell Clipboard Watcher

  30 Aug, 2013

  Implements a clipboard change watcher in PowerShell using inline C# with P/Invoke and WinForms WM_CLIPBOARDUPDATE.

• How to reach unreachable or copy files to RDP - Part 2

  20 Aug, 2013

  Follow-up on clipboard-based RDP file transfer, describing clipboard hang issues and a planned chunked clipboard watcher solution.

• How to reach unreachable or copy files to RDP

  19 Jun, 2013

  Technique for transferring binary files to an RDP server with no drive sharing by encoding them as Base64 via the clipboard.

• where.exe PowerShell alternative

  14 Mar, 2013

  How to use Get-Command as a PowerShell native alternative to the where.exe utility for locating executables.

• Kill Bill _W conhost

  8 Mar, 2013

  PowerShell script to kill all orphaned conhost.exe processes while preserving the one attached to the current session.