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So my laptop was recently attacked by malwares. I tried removing them using windows defender and I think they got removed. But afterwards I am suffering from following problems: 1. Windows apps like Groove music, default video player of windows, calculator etc. have all just...

Hi My friend called and his apps and start button don't work. I had him run SFC /scannow and that didn't find anything. The next solution was to reinstall all the apps. He is trying to do this through the command prompt by running. Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage...

Many times people may have both their wireless NIC and wired NIC connected at the same time. This can create a bridge and cause your network performance to degrade. Here is a powershell script that could be setup as a scheduled task to run at start up. What it does it detect if the wired nic...

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...

Here's a neat script I put together today. If added as a scheduled task it will loop and monitor running processes. The only thing needed is to sign up for an account on virustotal.com to get an API key then replace the F's with your api key Function Get-ProcessReport([string]$FilePath...

Recently I had a bad Windows 10 computer crash. The PC totally locked up, and the only thing I could do was power it down and power it back up. The first thing I noticed was that my entire Windows Live Mail database was gone - not a single message of the thousands that should have been there was...

I was bored and decided to look at the GodMode shortcut. For those of you that don't know what that is I'll explain. It's basically a folder shortcut with a special CLSID extension. CLSID is short for Class ID. The godmode shortcut will display a lot of settings available in the Control...

A few days ago over half of the shortcuts on my desktop disappeared. I have no idea what happened to cause this. My user desktop folder still showed all of the shortcuts that were previously on the visual desktop. When I attempted to recreate the missing shortcuts on my visual desktop I...

I've installed Windows 10. It's much, much better than Windows 8. I've been using in for a few months. The other day, the Start button would not actuate. After several restarts and cold shutdowns, nothing changed. I started searching around for solutions. By the number of folks who are in the...

I personally need to generate file hashes quite a bit for verifying file integrity as well as analyzing malware samples. I really wanted to have code that I had complete control over so I wrote a short powershell script and some minor registry editing to set this up. Registry Change If you...

Hi everyone since I upgraded to W10 I'm having some problems. -The start menu doesn't work anymore -The search tab neither -Right click on the icons on the menu bar neither -When I'm watching a video and I freeze the pc, I can't use the full screen anymore. I have to restart the pc. I...

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...

This tutorial will help you reset any metro style application, this includes Cortana and Microsoft Edge Open Windows Explorer (Windows Key + e) Navigate to C:\Users\<username>\Appdata\Local\Packages Shortcut: Type %LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages in the address bar The folders should be in the format...

Here is a powershell script that collects roughly the same info for BSOD analysis. Simply run it from an elevated powershell prompt. It creates a folder on the desktop called SYSTEMREPORT and a SYSTEMREPORT.zip. It will also prompt you and enable crash dumps if you don't have them enabled...

My Windows 10 seems to be fine, except for the mail app inbox and notifications. I have checked all the settings, but they must be correct anyway, because occasionally, an email arrives correctly in the inbox and I get a notification correctly. Then the next few just don't arrive, but...

Another powershell script. This one is for monitoring systems and to send alerts if a monitored system is no longer pingable. It generates a balloon notification and an email alert. It is similar to my laptop tracking script. Run the script once to configure it then add your hosts you wish...

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Hi, I have the following problem. I want to deploy create a bootable Win 7 I want to deploy multiple Win7 PC´s. Until now I am using Acronis to Restore the different Win7 Systems. But I want to create a bootable medium with 4 different Win7 backups. During the boot process you have to choose...

I have read lots of people are having this problem, have tried everything I've found, nothing fixes this issue for me. I did the free upgrade from Windows 7 Pro to Windows 10 Pro. As with many other people, the start button, Cortana, Edge, store, calculator - doesn't work and has not worked at...