For testing purposes or as a simple stub at the service deployment stage, I regularly need to run a simple web server on Windows. To avoid a full-featured IIS installation,…
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Updating PowerShell Version on Windows
April 12, 2023This article describes how to update Windows PowerShell to the latest version 5.1 and how to install (upgrade) PowerShell Core 7.3. There are currently two branches of PowerShell: The classic…
Branded computers/laptops that come with Windows pre-installed usually have a hidden hardware manufacturer OEM recovery partition. This partition usually contains a manufacturer’s Windows reference image, which can be used to…
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0x80244010 Exceeded Max Server Round Trips: Windows Update Error
May 10, 2023After deploying a new WSUS server on our corporate network, many Windows clients were unable to receive updates from the server with the error 0x80244010. It turns out that this…
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Find Out Which Process is Listening on a Specific Port on Windows
April 5, 2023When starting a new service or app on Windows, you may find that the port you want to use is already occupied (listening) by another program (process). This article will…
You can use the Import-CSV PowerShell cmdlet to read the contents of a CSV file. Once you load the contents of the CSV file, you get a PowerShell object in…
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How to Run Program without Admin Privileges and Bypass UAC Prompt
June 8, 2023When started, some programs require permission elevation (the shield next to the app icon), but actually, they don’t need administrator privileges for their normal operation. For example, you can manually…
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Configure Network Settings on Windows with PowerShell: IP Address, DNS, Default Gateway, Static Routes
March 24, 2023In Windows, you can manage the settings for your network adapters not only from the GUI but also from the PowerShell command prompt. In this article, we’ll look at the…
You can use the open-source usbipd-win project to access a computer’s physical USB devices from the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2) or Hyper-V virtual machine. This tool allows you to…
To take a screenshot in Windows, use the PrintScreen or Alt + PrintScreen (get the screenshot of the active window). The screenshot is copied to the clipboard and you may…