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Category Archives: SysInternals
Case of the Unwanted Chrome Search Modification
A friend’s machine had the Google Chrome home page set to piesearch.com But there is no homepage set in settings. Checking the Chrome Shortcut in Start Menu we can see it’s been modified, so we remove the piesearch parameter. This … Continue reading
Posted in Group Policy, Internet Explorer, ProcMon, Sys, SysInternals
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App-V Visio and Thick Excel Collide
A 3rd party Excel add-in had stopped working for a group of users, and they all received an error message on launching Excel: Microsoft Visual Basic for ApplicationsSystem Error &H8007007E (-2147024770) Unfortunately the VBA code in question was from the … Continue reading
Posted in App-V, Office, ProcMon, SysInternals
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Case of the KB2919355 Installation Failure (Windows 8.1 Update)
We had already updated a Windows 8.1 x64 machine with KB2919442 and was starting to install Windows8.1-KB2919355-x64.msu. Firstly it was hanging for ages at the “Installing” phase with no progress… Well that is normal. What is going on here? Using … Continue reading
Posted in ProcMon, SysInternals, Troubleshooting, Windows 8, Windows 8.1
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Don’t Use WScript To Launch Batch Files
I had a customer who was rolling out a new Anti-Virus product across tens of thousands of machines via the classic deployment tool ZenWorks 7. However the deployment success was quite low, around 80% success rate. Initial diagnostics by support … Continue reading
Case of the Incorrect Side-by-Side Configuration
So I had downloaded the latest version of BIND DNS server for Windows from http://www.isc.org/downloads as I wanted to have an up-to-date version of DNS diagnosis tool dig to be available. However if you just tried running dig.exe by itself … Continue reading
Posted in 64-bit, Application Compatibility, ProcMon, SysInternals, Windows 7
Tagged Side-by-Side DNS dig Win7 x64
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Case of the Group Policy Multiple-Language Overload
I had a colleague ask me “What is with all these languages in Group Policy Results?” Unfortunately this was in Windows XP land and being in Windows 7 so long my memory obviously had a few holes and couldn’t remember … Continue reading
Posted in Group Policy, PowerShell, ProcMon, SysInternals
Tagged group policy multiple languages
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Windows SysInternals Administrators Reference Review
So as you probably have guessed I’m a big fan of the Windows Internals Series, with versions 4 & 5 having had serious workouts. So with still no Windows Internals 6 on the horizon had to get this as an … Continue reading
Process Explorer vs Process Hacker–Part 2 of 2
Continuing from Part 1 here https://chentiangemalc.wordpress.com/2011/06/13/process-explorer-vs-process-hackerpart-1-of-2/ we will now compare more advanced features of Process Explorer & Process Hacker. Run As Options Both Process Explorer and Process Hacker have “Run” options. Process Explorer has “Run” and “Run As Limited User”.While … Continue reading
Posted in SysInternals, Troubleshooting
Tagged Process Explorer Process Hacker Sysinternals
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