Monthly Archives: January 2011

.NET Installation Checker

Posted on January 29, 2011 by chentiangemalc

Sometimes you might want a quick way to check what .NET frameworks are installed on a machine, and whether they are properly working. Microsoft provides a KB article documenting the registry keys required to detect .NET installation here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/318785 However … Continue reading →

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How To – Using Excel 2010 To Prioritize Your Life

Posted on January 29, 2011 by chentiangemalc

I tend to get bombarded constantly with new things to do, problems to solve, and solutions that need implementing. Instead of taking a random crazy attack on all your tasks it can be a good idea to prioritize them. I’ve … Continue reading →

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How To – Filtering Multiple Column Data & Row Highlighting Based on Single Cell in Excel 2010

Posted on January 26, 2011 by chentiangemalc

Let’s say you have some data, and you want to filter out any items that don’t meet a minimum spec. But that minimum spec could be in any of multiple columns. For example let’s say we have a list of … Continue reading →

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How to do BINARY conversion using Command Line Only

Posted on January 26, 2011 by chentiangemalc

Sometimes it is useful to be able to know the network address of a machine…I thought about how we could do this in a batch file. To get the network address requires knowing the IP address + Subnet of a … Continue reading →

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Resolving Windows 7 Startup BSOD in VMWare using WinDBG

Posted on January 26, 2011 by chentiangemalc

When booting a custom image in VMWare I was crashing and restarting so rapidly couldn’t catch the Blue Screen message. I tried safe mode, and last known configuration to no avail. I used boot logging and noticed the last driver … Continue reading →

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Script to collect all event logs off a remote Windows 7 / Server 2008 machine

Posted on January 25, 2011 by chentiangemalc

Unfortunately I often have to work over slow network links. Now in my experience MMC snap-ins such as event viewer are terrible over slow links with many hangs and plentiful “not respondings”. I hate to waste a user’s time by … Continue reading →

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why chentiangemalc?

Posted on January 24, 2011 by chentiangemalc

In 2004-2005 I lived in the North East of China, in a small city called Tonghua. Nobody could pronounce my name so I used a Chinese name “陳天歌“ which in Mandarin is pronounced Chen Tian Ge. Chen is a Chinese surname, a … Continue reading →

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How To Use .NET and PowerShell in Windows PE

Posted on January 24, 2011 by chentiangemalc

Something that has been a source of frustration to many IT staff is the lack of support for .NET and PowerShell within Windows PE. Although there are many good reasons why this is not included – memory usage/size of boot images … Continue reading →

Posted in .NET, Batch Files, PowerShell, Windows PE | Tagged | 16 Comments