SOLVED: Why Task Manager Memory In Use, Does Not Add Up To Total System Memory
Today one of our clients had a server with 16GB of RAM that had almost no software on it but was completely max’ed on memory. They did a quick calculation and found that the PROCESSES tab in Task...
View ArticleSOLVED: A New BITS Job Could Not Be Created, Job Limit of 60
One of our technicians ran into a seemingly complex Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) alert which turned out to be a quick fix and something we thought you would be interested in: A new...
View ArticleSOLVED: What Does The Number Beside a Users Name Mean in Windows Task Manager...
The number to the right of the users name in the users tab of task manager simply indicates the number of processes that that individual has running. You can click the > twisty to the left of their...
View ArticleSOLVED: Where to Assign a Certificate on a Network Policy Server (RADIUS)
If you have a Windows Network Policy Server aka RADIUS, you have to deal with certificates from time to time. When a certificate expires on your NPS server it can be a real problem to locate where NPS...
View ArticleSOLVED: Why the DATE MODIFIED Metadata Changes on Some Copied Files But Not...
We recently had a client who was used to copying files from one folder to another on their server via a file share from their desktop and not see the date modified information change on those files....
View ArticleSOLVED: What Does a Non-Critical Alert Mean on a Disk Controlled by a Dell...
As you can see in the screenshot below, we recently found a customer had several of the disks flagged with a triangular yellow exclamation mark (aka: a bang) which was categorized as non critical by...
View ArticleSOLVED: Is It Safe To Reduce The Size a Virtual Disk in VMware If It Has Not...
We had a client who accidentally expanded the volume size on a VMware disk and then wanted to undo that change. Specifically the client had used vmware cloud director to expand the size of a disk but...
View ArticleSOLVED: Is SysMain Just SuperFetch Renamed?
Why Microsoft Renamed Superfetch to SysMain Superfetch, a feature introduced by Microsoft in Windows Vista, was renamed to SysMain in later versions of Windows, starting with Windows 10. This change,...
View ArticleSOLVED: Can You REDUCE CPU Core Count or RAM in VMware Without Powering Down...
We recently worked with a client who had a mission critical server they did not want to power down to make hardware changes to. They were thinking because the server was a modern Windows Server 2019...
View ArticleSOLVED: Whats So Great About HTML5 & What Is Coming in HTML6?
Unless you’ve been living under a rock you likely have heard about HTML5, but most people really have no idea what it is or why it is better. Lets start with the basics and move on. WHAT IS HTML? HTML,...
View ArticleSOLVED: How To Reduce The Size of Windows Search Index File Windows.edb
As you can see in the screenshot below we have a client with a small seed drive of just 64 GB that was almost completely out of space. The image shows that they had 2.6 GB of space free but we took...
View ArticleSOLVED: Command to Determine the Name of the Server Hosting a Mapped Drive
Yesterday we had a client with a large number of servers that was unable to locate the server was hosting their Q:\ drive. You can use the NET USE command in Command Prompt to determine the name of the...
View ArticleSOLVED: VIDEO: Delete Specific Cookies from Chrome Edge Browser LIKE A PRO
Ever wondered what browser cookies are and how they affect your browsing experience? In this video, we break down the basics of browser cookies, explaining what they are, how they work, and why they’re...
View ArticleSOLVED: Unlocking the Mysteries: A Comprehensive Guide to 100 Windows Services
If you work in the IT Department with Microsoft Windows technologies, you frequently need to determine details of a Windows Service. To help our Windows technicians we created this list of the top 100...
View ArticleSOLVED: Which User Logged on First When RDP’ing to a Server With Two...
When you connect to a Windows Server via Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) and see a list of logged-in users, the order in which the users are displayed does not necessarily indicate the sequence in which...
View ArticleSOLVED: Stop “Open File – Security Warning This File is in a Location Outside...
If you are working on corporate network you may see important security popups that tell you the place you are launching a file or program from is not local. What this is trying to keep you safe from is...
View ArticleSOLVED: Script To Search All GPO’s For Software Installs
A few days ago we had a client who had some software get reinstalled automatically after they manually uninstalled it. The tech that had originally managed this software has left the company and we are...
View ArticleSOLVED: PowerShell Script To List All Software Installed
We had a client who needed to know exactly what was installed on all of their servers in an effort to prepare for an audit. This client is quite small and only had about a dozen servers so instead of...
View ArticleSOLVED: Simple Script To Delete Garbage & Make Space on C:\ Drive
With the advent of virtual machines came the notion that because hard drives can be expanded in the future you should set them to be as small as they possibly can be at the start. As a result our...
View ArticleSOLVED: PowerShell Script To Search All GPO’s For a Setting
If you’ve ever worked in group policy, you know that the Group Policy Management Console (GPMC) hasn’t changed very much since it was introduced in Windows 2000 way back in 1999. One critical feature...
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