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Forcefully Stop HyperV VM

Manuel Bogner — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 13:49:39 +0000

Get the name as displayed in HyperV of the VM you want to stop and then run:

$VMGUID = (Get-VM "vm_name").ID
$VMWMProc = (Get-WmiObject Win32_Process | ? {$_.Name -match 'VMWP' -and $_.CommandLine -match $VMGUID})
Stop-Process ($VMWMProc.ProcessId) -Force

iCUE shutdown/reboot bug on Windows 10 – The memory could not be read

Manuel Bogner — Thu, 29 Oct 2020 00:39:28 +0000

With Corsair’s iCUE (latest version) on my Windows 10 (all updates installed) I got an error dialogue on every shutdown/reboot from iCUE. It was something like the following:

The instruction at 0x000000005FC4030B reference memory at 0x000000003ED0860. The memory could not be read.

Taken from the Corsair forum this especially effects systems with ASUS soundcards. I have an ASUS Essence STX II and a Corsoir keyboard which requires iCUE for LED config.

I didn’t want to try switching soundcard drivers to get rid of a keyboard led software problem so I went with the solution to run C:\Windows\SysWOW64\HsMgr.exe as admin. Here the steps I followed (taken from the forum – thx to the guys investigating this already and posting a solution):

Go to ... C:\Windows\SysWOW64, here you'll find a HsMgr.exe file.
HsMgr.exe is a driver component for Asus, Auzentech, Creative and other sound cards. If you run it as Admin, the error will disappear.
Do this by right clicking it > Properties > Compatibility > Change settings for all users > Run this program as an administrator.

Now just restart your system. The error won't be there anymore the next time you reboot or shut it down.

I didn’t investigate if this compromises system security but I can confirm that the error is gone.

Windows ln style softlinks with mklink

Manuel Bogner — Tue, 26 May 2020 22:10:49 +0000

You can use softlinks (linux: ln -s source target) under windows.

MKLINK [[/D] | [/H] | [/J]] Link Target

        /D      Creates a directory symbolic link.  Default is a file
                symbolic link.
        /H      Creates a hard link instead of a symbolic link.
        /J      Creates a Directory Junction.
        Link    Specifies the new symbolic link name.
        Target  Specifies the path (relative or absolute) that the new link
                refers to.

The example mklink /D jdk11 jdk-11.0.7.10-hotspot will create a softlink with name jdk11 to folder jdk-11.0.7.10-hotspot in the same directory.

Create .zip for every folder of a directory under Windows 10

Manuel Bogner — Sat, 04 May 2019 00:20:22 +0000

Open a terminal and cd to the directory with the folders. Then run the following command:

for /f "tokens=* usebackq" %G in (dir /b /a:d "%cd%") do "c:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe" a -r -tzip "%~G.zip" "%~G

Make sure you have 7z installed under default installation target. Otherwise it won’t find the 7z.exe.

hwclock problems with dual boot

Manuel Bogner — Fri, 28 Oct 2016 15:17:01 +0000

My English version of Windows 10 and Ubuntu 16.04 could not agree whether my hwclock is UTC or not. So booting either Window or Linux changed my hwclock and then the time in the other OS was wrong. So I changed my hwclock to UTC and told Windows and Linux that my clock is set to UTC:

Windows:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation]
"RealTimeIsUniversal"=dword:00000001

Linux:

Open the file (as superuser)

/etc/default/rcS

and add or change UTC=yes

Windows 8.1 WinSxS Cleanup

Manuel Bogner — Wed, 26 Nov 2014 19:51:15 +0000

See the following link from msdn. There you find commands to cleanup the WinSxS folder:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/de-de/library/dn251565.aspx

You will need admin rights for doing this ;-)

Start/Stop PostgreSQL under Windows

Manuel Bogner — Tue, 18 Nov 2014 15:45:31 +0000

There is a simple way to start/stop postgresql without any need to open the services dialogue:

NET START postgresql-x64-9.3

NET STOP postgresql-x64-9.3

Just replace the version in the statements (you only need major and minor). Just skip the -x64 if you still have a 32bit version.

TortoiseSVN does not save passwords

Manuel Bogner — Wed, 20 Nov 2013 14:17:29 +0000

I had the problem that TortoiseSVN didn’t save passwords anymore. The solution is to delete the folder

%APPDATA%subversionauth

Normalemail.dotm in Office 2010

Manuel Bogner — Mon, 26 Aug 2013 13:42:29 +0000

My outlook 2010 always wants to save Normalemail.dotm when I close it. To fix this i created a .reg file with the following content and double clicked it:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftOffice14.0WordOptionsWordMail]
"ATUserAdded"=dword:00000001

After that the problem was fixed.

Bug in htpasswd.exe

Manuel Bogner — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 07:16:36 +0000

I tried to configure basic authentication under an apache 2.4.4 and could not find out why my password didn’t match. Just got the following line in the log though my password was correct:

[…] [auth_basic:error] [pid …:tid …] [client ::…] AH01617: user ___: authentication failure for “/asd/”: Password Mismatch, referer: http://localhost/

So I found the following bug description https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54735. To come over this I just had to use httpasswd with the -b flag to provide the password from command line instead of prompting for it.

htpasswd -b passwdfile username password