Archive for category Windows
Windows shortcut keys
Feb 5
Shortcut Keys
Command
%appdata%
Application Data Folder
%homedrive%
Home Directory Drive
%homepath%
Home Directory
%homeshare%
Shared Home Directory
%programfiles%
Open Program Files folder
%systemdrive%
Windows Root Drive
%temp%
Temporary Folder
%windir%
Windows Root Directory
ac3filter.cpl
Opens AC3 Filter (If Installed)
access.cpl
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Windows 7 shortcut keys
Feb 3
Win + –>
Dock window to the left
Win + <– (Right Arrow)
Dock window to the right
Win + 1
Open 1st pinned item in the taskbar
Win + 2
Open 2nd pinned item in the taskbar
Win + Up Arrow
Reset window to the normal
Win + (space)
Peek the desktop
Win + D
Toggle minimize/maximize all open windows
Win + Pause
Open System properties
Win + T
Cycle through windows in Aero3D
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Open blocked websites
Oct 26
If the websites are blocked in any country, we can still access the website by following simple steps
1. Open the network adaptor properties
2. Change the DNS server to 8.8.8.8 and alternate DNS to 8.8.4.4
The above IP’s are of google servers. Your computer will use the google servers now. you can turn it back when you dont need them.
Make sure that you remember the original settings.
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If we need to reinstall windows 8 developer preview, it will ask for the key where as it will not ask for the first time when we are installing the windows 8 developer preview.
Use the following key for windows 8 developer preview for resetting or reinstalling
6RH4V-HNTWC-JQKG8-RFR3R-36498
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windows 7 hidden secrets
Jan 1
Windows 7 has a hidden secret named GodMode. GodMode is nothing but a control panel which contains a list of administrative tools from where we can manage some administrative tasks in windows.
By default it is not available we need to do a small trick to open this godMode.
To enable GodMode, create a folder and rename it with the following string:
GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
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Windows 7 Themes
Dec 29
By default, windows 7 comes with lot of themes and these are regional in nature i.e., we will see the themes specific to our country.
If we want to see all of the themes available we can navigate to the folder \windows\globalization\MCT and activate whatever theme we prefer
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To know which process is using the port, use netstat command
netstat -ano
We can get the process ID from the result. From the task manager, we can find the process based on process ID.
Note: Process ID column is not displayed in Task Manager by default. To set the process ID column, navigate to View –> Select Columns
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By Default windows 2003 without TS configuration allows 1 console session and 2 Remote sessions. To change the remote sessions, we can use Group Policy Editor
1. Open Group Policy editory by gpedit.msc
2. Navigate to Computer Configuration –> Administrative Templates –> Windows Components –> Terminal Services
3. Change the limit number of connections to Enabled and set the value to 1
3.
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Some times we may need to kill the user session remotely when we do not have enough connections to connect through RDP. We will get the message “The terminal server has exceeded the maximum number of allowed connections.” when there are not enough connections to the windows 2000/2003/2008 server.
Microsoft provided some tools (sysinternals) to execute the commands from remote computer.
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Process Explorer
Apr 8
When I want to find out the details of all processes running in my windows 2003 server, I found an excellent utility from sysinternals which gives all the details of all processes.
We can download this utility free of cost from sysinternals site at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx
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