Useful Windows keyboard shortcuts

by admin Posted on January 10, 2015

Open Task Manager –> ctrl+shift+esc
Quit program –> alt+F4
Right click –> shift+F10
Main window menu(minimize…) –> alt+space
Open menu in a program –> alt
open properties –> alt+enter
create new folder –>ctrl+shift+n
Cursor in address bar –> alt+d
Search –> F3
New tab –> ctrl+t
Use the arrow keys to switch between open items –> alt+tab+arrows(alt pressed)
Go up one level –> alt+up arrow
Move through tabs –> ctrl+tab
move backwards through tabs –> ctrl+shift+tab
System properties –> win+pause
Focus on the taskbar –> win+t
Shutdown menu –> alt+F4
Preview the desktop –> win+space
Maximize window –> win+up arrow
Minimize window –> win+down arrow
Projector –> win+p

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VMware – Force shutdown of a stuck VM

by admin Posted on September 12, 2014

Sometimes a VM is stuck and can’t be killed with vSphere Client

Login through ssh to the Esxi server and get a list of running VMs identified by World ID:

esxcli vm process list

Power off one of the virtual machines from the list using this command:

esxcli vm process kill --type=force --world-id=7331933
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Troubleshooting Group Policy update issues

by admin Posted on June 25, 2014

Problem: Logon scripts not running.
Check for event ID 1058 in System Event Log.In the details tab find the sysvol path pointing to the gpt.ini file.Check if the file is accessible.
Check which DC the pc uses to login to AD:
echo %logonserver%
From command prompt run gpupdate to check issues

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Setting timezone on CentOS

by admin Posted on June 16, 2014

Timezone data files are stored on:

/usr/share/zoneinfo

 

$ sudo rm /etc/localtime
$ sudo ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Athens /etc/localtime
#
# now check it's ok
#
$ date
Wed Oct  1 12:42:33 GMT 2008
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Create large file from command prompt

by admin Posted on March 12, 2014

A quick way to create a file of a specific size from command prompt:

fsutil file createnew C:\bigfile.txt 5000000000

The above command will create bigfile.txt with size 4,65GB.

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Stop Bind from performing forward lookups using IPv6

by admin Posted on September 19, 2013

You may get logs similar to the following:
Sep 17 16:15:07 nsserver named[21089]: network unreachable resolving
'ns2.vistaprint.com/A/IN': 2001:503:a83e::2:30#53
You can specify OPTIONS=’-4′ in /etc/sysconfig/named to tell named not to use IPv6 or disable IPv6 completely on your machine. You can disable IPv6 this way:
Add
“options ipv6 disable=1” to /etc/modprobe.conf
and
“NETWORKING_IPV6=no” to /etc/sysconfig/network

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