TODO:
Have you ever built a service and wanted to install it?
SOLUTION:
- Open a Visual Studio Command Window
- Navigate to your EXE folder of the service.
- Execute the following command:
- C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\installutil .\YourService.exe
NOTES:
This assume .Net version 4
TODO:
You are using VMWare on Mac, to run Windows (any version). For no apparent reason, copy or cut and paste stops working.
SOLUTION:
Suspend the VM, and then go back into it. Copy or cut and paste should now work.
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TODO:
Have you ever wanted to enable the Disk Cleanup tool in Windows Server 2012?
SOLUTIONS:
To enable this tool, you have to install the Desktop Experience Feature, which is located in Control Panel -> Programs and Features -> Turn Windows Features On and Off ->Add Roles and Features -> Features.
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TODO:
How to get the login window in Vista while using Remote Desktop?
SOLUTION:
Press FN + ALT + F4
NOTES:
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TODO:
Have you ever received "Could not access network location..." when you attempt to install an application on Windows runnin in VMWare?
There are 2 sections of registry keys that need to be inspected.
SOLUTION:
Navigate to these 2 keys, and look for entries that hve invalid settings. In my case the HKCU had an entry called "Personal", that had a path to \\vmware-host\shared folders\documents. Once I changed that to "c:\Documents and Settings\myusername" the issue went away.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders
NOTES:
The new path will require you to change "myusername" to your proper user name.
TODO:
Have you ever received the message "BootMgr is missing" error message, when booting to Windows from VMWare? This is due to, or can be due to the Boot Partition not being marked as active. The fix is easy, you just need GParted, and about 15 minutes of time.
SOLUTION:
1. Download GParted here
2. Mount the GParted Live iso in VMare. To do this, go to VMWare -> Settings -> CD
2.1 Next choose "Select disk or disk image"
2.2 Select the GParted ISO.
3. Restart VM
4. In GParted select to Boot Partition, choose "Manage Flags", and select "boot". This makes it the Boot Partition again.
5. Close GParted, and restart VM. Windows will now boot.
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TODO:
Have you ever wanted to copy files from your Mac to your RDP session. In Windows land, you can just ctrl+c the file and ctrl+v it. That is not the case with the MAC OSX Client.
SOLUTION:
Open RDP Preferences.
Click "Drives"
Select the drives/folders you want visible
Exit out
NOTES:
You will have to restart your RDP Session for the changes to stick.
After doing so, you will see "folder name on mac name" under "Computer"
TODO:
All of a sudden, you get a message "One Or More Activex Controls Could Not Be Displayed Because..." when you open Services.
SOLUTION:
Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\Zones\ and delete the key before "0".
NOTES:
I think you can thank Adobe Updater for this one. I noticed I had an Update that I declined supposedly forever since I checked "do not remind me again",
and since that boot, I had the error.