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Hello, I am trying to open a file [FILE] with a program [PROGRAM]. I have a shortcut of those two on my desktop. When i drag and drop [FILE] on top of [PROGRAM], it works as expected, meaning that [FILE] gets openend correctly by using [PROGRAM] to open it (Similarly to how you would drop a...

To keep the story short (and avoid embarrassment to myself)... I have a file (.exe) to which everyone supposedly has full permissions, except that with explorer I cannot delete it, copy it, or move it. I can take ownership of it, but the same situation still exists. I **know** (because there...

Assume I have a huge directory tree with lots of files and folders. Some of them belong to (simplified) user "karl" (or unknown user "S-1-5-21-107808153") others not. When I execute now a command like takeown /f * /a /r /d y then ALL files+folders get the "Administrators" account as owner. I...

Hi, I'd to make my cmd open as an administrator by default. I know I can hit Win+X->'a', but I want to open the admin-cmd anywhere. Normally I open cmd in a folder either by: 1. Typing 'cmd' into Windows Explorer url bar [preferred method] 2. shift+right-click -> open cmd as administrator So...

Assume I boot Win10 from an USB flash drive on various computers. The max possible resolution differs from computer to computer. I could always manually fiddle through the menus and set the current max.possible resolution manually. But this is uncomfortable. Is there a utility or cmdline...

Hello everyone! I own a Asus Zenbook UX31A that came originaly with Windows 7, that was updated to Windows 10. It has an SSD with a recovery partition and I never messed with the partition table. The laptop is becoming slower so I decided to reset to factory settings (wich I already did a few...

I rana the windows clean up cipher command cipher /w:c and a few minutes into the run time my system went off. When I powered up my PC later my memory was hard disk memory was clogged up. Up to 85% full I I've tryed to free up the memory but nothing is happening pls I need help

What is Rtmd Process in Windows?

Hi, I have windows 7, IE10. When trying update to ie11 I got an error something with c947, so I tried to go to the basics and remove IE completely (control panel->uninstal programs-> uninstall updates->unistall windows internet explorer 10) and got an error (without a specific number). Quick...

Using the command line, I would like to write a simple script that creates two folders C:\$X.~01 and C:\$X.~01 and then maybe uses the icacls command to set the permissions on both folders such that neither folder may be read, written or modified in any manner except specifically by a single...

Hi , Can anyone advise on this. I was running a command as below using cmd batch file typeperf "\Processor(_Total)\% Processor Time" >> Memory.txt However, I could not display the output to the text file and it shows error : Error: No valid counters. Please kindly advice. Regards Wang

I am playing around with windows server 2008 and learning how to use it. Just a hobby on weekends. I was able to successfully install: php, mysql & phpmyadmin Now the problem is i'm trying to import a database into phpmyadmin, the database is 42.6mb therefore i am unable to import...

Since installing a new modem/router (gateway for Comcast) two DHCPv6 errors, rarely seen earlier, have been appearing with some regularity... "Your computer has lost the lease to its IP address 2601:1c0:5702:9370::1 on the Network Card with network address 0xF46D043BC2BE." "Your computer was...

I have a Dell Inspiron N5050 that has been upgraded to windows 10. I doesnt work properly. (It suffers from the black screen on boot issue where you have to close and open the lid to get the display to show, plus the desktop continuous flicker/refreshing issue, plus the start menu will not show...

Hey all! I'm a noob at writing batch files and have written a bunch, but my latest one is an odd one. I'm actually trying to break remote machines (for security reasons) by renaming the bootmgr system file and then shutting the machines down so they can no longer boot up. My batch file will map...

Hi Today I was trying to delete some old video project folders. I had one folder that had dozens of files created by Adobe Premiere Elements that I don't need to keep anymore. The thing was that every time I tried to delete them I got a message saying that the file names were too long to...

How can users check from commandline (!!!) if hibernation is currently on or off? When I search through the Internet then thousands of articles describe how to turn it e.g. on e.g. by powercfg -H on But what if I just want to let Win just show the current state WITHOUT to change it? Is there...

On my 64bit Win 7 system I have two partitions: C: (with the "core" Win7 system) D: (with almost all other stuff) When I start the following command: chkdsk D: /F /V /R /X >C:\chkdskout.log everything works fine. However when I enter the opposite command chkdsk C: /F /V /R /X...

Hi, I decided that I wanted to remove certain built-in apps from my Windows 10 device by using commands in powershells. Now it appears, I entered the wrong command and ended up messing up all of my apps. Now I can barely use any of them. However, I only need 1 of them that is broken. I can't...

I have a PC running Windows 8.1 64 bit. I am using sfc.exe and it tells me it tried to fix files but could not fix all of them. I am trying to find which files are corrupt using the command: findstr /c: "[SR]" %windir%\Logs\CBS\CBS.log >"%userprofile%\Desktop\sfcdetails.txt". My command...