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  1. Windows 10 BitLocker TPM issue

    Hello all, Used the manage-bde –forcerecovery command to test the recovery key that Windows automatically saved to my account, and now I am being prompted continuously to enter the recovery key even after suspending protection. I understand that using this command would wipe the TPM protectors...
  2. Windows 10 Net Use doesn't show mapped drives

    Hi guys, I have 3 mapped drives which are accessible. However, when I run net use command I'm getting this output. Does anybody know why is it so?
  3. Windows 10 Uninstalling device - command line style?

    Hi, I have been having an issue the past few months, but I have never really come up with a decent idea on how to work around it. It concerns a USB-hub that I'm using that my copy of Windows, for some reason, reinstalls every time I reboot the computer. I'm pretty sure that there must be some...
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    Windows 10 Help with creating Batch files. My instructor is no help.

    I'm having to create a set of batch files for a class. My instructor is no help. I have included the assignment. Is there anyone out there who can help me? 1. Create a batch file called DD.BAT. This batch file should display the files on the root of the HOMEWORK drive in date order with the...
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    Windows 7 Does Sfc /scannow append new entries to CBS.Log?

    It seems to me that the well known command sfc /scannow ..... appends all logmessages to a possibly already existing CBS.LOG file rather than create a new logfile. Is this correct? So if I want to have a fresh logfile just with the results from the last sfc run I have to manually delete the...
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    Windows 7 Take Ownership only for files+folders of user "karl"?

    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...
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    Conversation of disk space format

    Hi guys , I am trying to convert the Freespace and Size to GB format using the script command : WMIC LOGICALDISK GET Name,Size,Freespace /format:value FreeSpace=61612036096 Name=C: Size=87780155392 The result I desire is something like : FreeSpace=61GB Name=C: Size=87GB Can anyone help...
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    Windows 10 How to copy file details such as year & genre etc. to a text file.

    Hi, I have already learnt to use (dir /b >direct.txt) in CMD prompt to copy all the file names in a folder to a txt file but was wondering if i'st possible to also get all the file details such as Year, Genre, Writer, Director, Contributing Artist & Comments etc. Regards Wyldbear
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    Windows 7 [SOLVED i think..] set /p Not working properly, or If statement not working

    I'm trying to create a text-based game, but I can't get passed the menu because either "set /p" isn't taking an input, or "if '%...'" isn't seeing it. This is what I'm doing to test menus, currently :mmenu echo Main Menu echo Start echo Quit SET /P "a=Select " if "a"=="Start" [removed:then...
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    Windows 7 how do you delete a .bat log file that is waiting for a reply ?

    I have a log file that is waiting for an answer to the overwrite command. I can't delete the log and I can't delete the file because it says it's in use(both files) Rebooting is pretty much not an option..... thanks, Linda ile: Link Removed Searching...          ...
  11. Windows 7 w32time account disappeared

    I've had a couple of problems with my Windows services and I was working my way fixing them and I got most of them to work except for the "Windows Time" service. I tried to restore the default registry keys/values for this service but I kept getting the "Access Denied" error when trying to start...