Archive for December, 2006

Installation Manager Event ID: 3601

Installation Manager showed a job status of failed when installing some Citrix Hotfixes on my PS4 Environment. Google showed me this document: http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX108840 You can check if the installation of the citrix hotfix was succesful using this tool: cpatch /i /[hotfix_name] So far no problems have occurred and the patch seems to have installed correctly.

How to enable user environment debug logging in Windows

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/221833/en-us The short version: Use Registry Editor to add the following registry value (or modify it, if the value already exists): Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon Value: UserEnvDebugLevel Value Type: REG_DWORD Value Data: 10002 (Hexadecimal) UserEnvDebugLevel can have the following values: NONE 0×00000000 NORMAL 0×00000001 VERBOSE 0×00000002 LOGFILE 0×00010000 DEBUGGER 0×00020000 The default value is NORMAL|LOGFILE (0×00010001). [...]

Windows 2003 Permissions command line tool

Very handy tool and also freeware..works on registry, files etc etc. SetACL: http://setacl.sourceforge.net/ SetACL is a set of routines for managing Windows permissions (ACLs) from the command line. Supported object types: files and directories, registry keys, printers, services, network shares. Manage permissions on local or remote systems in trusted or untrusted domains or workgroups. Set [...]

Open Command Prompt here (Windows XP)

Tired of going through the Start, Run, CMD process everytime..? Just use your explorer to navigate to the correct folder and rightclick and you’ll see a “Open Command Window Here” if you import this key: REGEDIT4 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\cmd] @=”Open Command Window Here” [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\cmd\command] @=”cmd.exe /k \”cd %L\”” [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\cmd] @=”Open Command Window Here” [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\cmd\command] @=”cmd.exe /k \”cd %L\””

Citrix server cannot be found when connecting from remote location

A small organsation needed access to our Citrix servers. They had access to our LAN from a certain gateway put away on a deep dark spot in our network. When they tried to connect to our servers, they would receive the “Server cannot be found” or similair messages but sometimes they would be able to [...]

Searching in Files without extension in Windows 2003

Yep, this is turned off by default. To enable it, change or add this key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\ContentIndex] “FilterFilesWithUnknownExtensions”=dword:00000001