1. Insert and boot from your WindowsXP CD.
2. At the first R=Repair option, press the R key
3. Press the number that corresponds to the correct location for the installation of Windows you want to repair.
   Typically this will be #1
4. Enter in the administrator password when requested
5. cd \windows\system32\config
6. Depending on which section was corrupted:
   ren software software.bad or ren system system.bad
7. Depending on which section was corrupted
   copy \windows\repair\system
   copy \windows\repair\software
8. Take out the CD ROM and type exit

1. Install VMware Tools

To start, VMware Tools needs to be installed in your Virtual Machine. That should at least be from vSphere version 4.0.

2. Update your Graphics Drivers

Go to your Hardware Manager in Windows and right click your Display Adapter. Choose Update Driver Software.

Say you’ll browse to a specific location and point it to C:\Program Files\Common Files\VMware\Drivers\wddm_video.

Et voila: your driver has been updated!

3. Reboot your VM

After the driver’s been installed, reboot your Virtual Machine and you will notice the smooth console access you’re used to from Windows Server 2003.

Incoming search terms:

• esx windows 2008 black console (1)
• esxi fehler windows 2008 (1)
• install vmtools on server 2008 (1)

    Error: “The network location cannot be reached. “

The most likely cause is that Host Headers for that particular site are configured for an IP address which is either no longer configured on the server, or on which IIS is no longer listening. I’m just going to assume you know how to check if an IP is configured on a server.

To check whether IIS service is listening on a particular IP, you’ll need the Windows Server Support Tools (hit google for another version if you should need it). After the installation, can you use the following Command Prompt tools.

> httpcfg query iplisten
IP                      : 10.1.5.200

If your IP address isn’t present, try adding it.

> httpcfg set iplisten -i 10.1.5.201
HttpSetServiceConfiguration completed with 0.

And query the list again.

> httpcfg query iplisten
IP                      : 10.1.5.200
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
IP                      : 10.1.5.201
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

If it does not work after the httpcfg change, you may have to reboot your server (I know, it sucks). For some reason, restarting IIS alone may not always help.

A very likely cause is that something else was occupying port 80 already when the IIS service started, causing it to delete that particular listen IP from it’s configuration. To track that down, use netstat.

> netstat -anb | find “80″

That will list all connections or programs listening to port 80.

Incoming search terms:

• network location cannot be reached rootkit (2)
• network location cannot be reached (1)

smbclient -M <WINDOW-SYSTEM-NAME> <<EOF
Message
Message
…
..
…
When the message is complete, press Control-D.

Send message to Windows system from Linux/ FreeBSD

To send a message “Meeting canceled” to windows system called joyxp
$ smbclient -M joyxp <<EOF
Output:

Meeting canceled
See you at coffee house in 2 hrs.
--Vivek
EOF

With –U you can specify the username.
$ smbclient -M myxp -U VIVEK <<EOF
Meeting cancelled
See you at coffee house in 2 hrs.
EOF

This tip also works with Linux and other UNIX variant with Samba client utilities package. Read man page of smbclient for more information.
man smbclient

Incoming search terms:

• EOF in centos (1)
• freebsd / linux: sending a message to windows workstation with smbclient command (1)
• freebsd send message to workstation (1)
• linux command send network message (1)
• messages linux windows (1)
• samba server (1)
• smbclient send message to wondows (1)

Use the mount command to mount remote windows partition or windows share under Linux as follows:

Procedure to mount remote windows partition (NAS share)

1) Make sure you have following information:
==> Windows username and password to access share name
==> Sharename (such as //server/share) or IP address
==> root level access on Linux

2) Login to Linux as a root user (or use su command)

3) Create the required mount point:

# mkdir -p /mnt/ntserver

4) Use the mount command as follows:

# mount -t cifs //ntserver/download -o username=vivek,password=myPassword /mnt/ntserver

Use following command if you are using Old version such as RHEL <=4 or Debian <= 3:

# mount -t smbfs -o username=vivek,password=D1W4x9sw //ntserver/download /mnt/ntserver

5) Access Windows 2003/2000/NT share using cd and ls command:

# cd /mnt/ntserver; ls -l

Where,

• -t smbfs : File system type to be mount (outdated, use cifs)
• -t cifs : File system type to be mount
• -o : are options passed to mount command, in this example I had passed two options. First argument is password (vivek) and second argument is password to connect remote windows box
• //ntserver/download : Windows 2000/NT share name
• /mnt/ntserver Linux mount point (to access share after mounting)

Incoming search terms:

• centos automount windows nt share (1)
• cpanel mount windows share (1)
• mount to a remote windows (1)
• share one partition with files centos windows (1)

To perform this format successfully, you need to launch Command Prompt with Administrator permissions before executing the command.

Here are the steps to follow:

1. First, find the drive letter of the HDD you wish to format from My Computer. Check, double check, and triple check you have the right letter before executing any format commands on your drive.

2. Navigate to the Command Prompt program: Start Menu > Accessories

3. Right click the Command Prompt entry in Accessories and choose to “Run as Administrator”.

4. You should be prompted by User Account Control “Do you want to allow the following program to make changes to this computer?” Answer yes. If you have disabled UAC, you will not see this message.

5. With the command prompt now showing, enter the following command:

format XYZ: /FS:FAT32

Replace XYZ with the letter of the drive you wish to format.

You can also perform a quick format on any drive without bad sectors:

format XYZ: /FS:FAT32 /q

Again, replace XYZ with the letter of the drive you want to format.

Depending on the size and the method you choose to use to format your drive, it can take anywhere between one minute and several hours for the format to finish. But once complete, you will have your drive properly formatted to the FAT32 filesystem.

Incoming search terms:

• format as fat32 win7 (1)
• win7 64 prepare harddrive (1)
• quick fat 32 formatter (1)
• how to format hard drive fat 32 windows 7 (1)
• how to format external hard disk to fat32 in centos (1)
• how to format a hdd in fat 32 (1)
• how to format a hard drive to fat32 on windows 7 (1)
• formatting fat32 in windows 7 (1)
• formatting external hard drive as fat32 windows 7 (1)
• formatting a drive to fat32 (1)

To change this setting:

1. Run gpedit.msc
2. Go to Computer Configuration / Windows Settings / Security Settings / Local Policies / Security Options
3. Double click on Accounts: Limit local account use of blank passwords to console login only
4. Disable this option

Incoming search terms:

• limit local use of blank password (1)

In SQL Server Management Studio navigate to your database.

Right click it and select “Tasks” -> “Generate Scripts”
“Next”
Select your database from the list
“Next” Select “Stored Procedures” “Next”
“Select All” “Next”
“Script to new Query Window” “Next”
“Finish”

Give it a while. Then when complete, at the very top of the script put “use (yourdatabase)”

Execute the use statement.
Execute the whole script.

Incoming search terms:

• centos storage procedure (2)
• directadmin mssql (1)
• nginx mssql (1)
• stored procedure windows dan centos (1)

A closer look at the registration information

Registration information, which consists of the owner’s name and a company name (if specified), is stored in the registry as simple text strings. The owner’s name is stored in the RegisteredOwner key, while the company name is stored in the RegisteredOrganization key. Registration information is displayed on the General tab of the System Properties dialog box under the Registered To heading, as shown in Figure A.

Figure A

The user’s name and the name of the user’s company appear on the General tab of the System Properties dialog box under the Registered To heading.

This is fine as long as the user sticks with that system, but you’ll want to change the entries when they pass along the system to someone else in the company.

Back up!

Always use caution when working with the registry. Unintentional changes made to the registry can cause the system to crash. Always back up your system before opening the registry.

As you may know, the underlying structure of the registry in each of the Microsoft operating systems is very similar. However, there are slight differences. In the Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows Me operating systems, the RegisteredOwner and RegisteredOrganization keys are stored in the key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion

In Windows NT, Windows 2000, and Windows XP, the keys are stored in the key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion

Blank keys

Keep in mind that either or both of the RegisteredOwner and RegisteredOrganization keys can be blank. In other words, the keys exist in the registry, but they contain an empty string.

Automating registry changes

As I mentioned, manually editing the registration information stored in the registry via the Registry Editor can be a tricky and time-consuming operation. Fortunately, the Windows Script Host provides programming methods that allow you to quickly and easily automate the process of editing the registry. The two methods that I use in this script are the RegRead and RegWrite methods.

As its name implies, the RegRead method allows you to access a key in the registry and read the value stored in that particular key. Likewise, the RegWrite method allows you to change the value of any particular key in the registry.

The Windows Script Host actually provides you with one more method for making modifications to the registry, the RegDelete method. However, since the Registration Changer utility doesn’t really need to explicitly delete anything from the registry and because the RegWrite method can actually overwrite an existing value, I didn’t need to use the RegDelete method in the script. Nevertheless, it’s good to know that RegDelete is available.

In order to use the RegRead and RegWrite methods, you need to know the exact name of the key in the registry that you want to edit, as well as its exact path. You also need to know what type of data the key holds. Without getting into too much detail on this last point, there are actually four different data types that the registry contains: strings, 32-bit unsigned values, binary data, and expandable macro strings.

Installing the Registration Changer utility

Once you’ve downloaded the Registration Changer utility installation package, simply double-click the RegChange Installation.exe file. When you do, the installation program will prompt you to choose a folder in which to install the application. If the folder doesn’t exist, the installation program will create it for you.

After you install the Registration Changer utility, you’ll see the following two files in your chosen folder:

RegChange.hta

RegChange.ico

Of course, the RegChange.hta file is the HTA file that you’ll use to launch the application. The RegChange.ico file contains the icon that the HTA uses for the control menu and the taskbar.

Using the Registration Changer utility

Using the Registration Changer utility is easy. After you install the utility, just double-click the HTA file to launch it. If you prefer, you can create a shortcut to the HTA file and place it on your Start menu. Once you launch the Registration Changer utility, you’ll see the main screen shown in Figure B.

Figure B

The Registration Changer utility makes it easy to change registration information.

To begin, you need to select the operating system you’re using. As you can see, the operating systems are grouped according to the location in the registry in which the RegisteredOwner and RegisteredOrganization keys are stored. If you fail to select an operating system and click either the Display or OK buttons, you’ll see the error message shown in Figure C. When you click OK, you’ll be returned to the main screen and can start again.

Figure C

If you fail to select an operating system before you proceed, you’ll see an error message.

Be sure to select the correct operating system

It’s imperative that you select the correct operating system for this operation to be successful. If the operating system is incorrect, the Registration Changer will apply the changes to the wrong location in the registry. When that happens, the registration information you wanted to change will remain unchanged, and unnecessary garbage will be added to the registry. If you happen to apply the changes to the wrong operating system, you can easily remove the unnecessary garbage by running the utility again and leaving the text boxes blank.

After you select an operating system, you may want to see the current registration information for the system. Just click the Display button. When you do, you’ll see the current registration information displayed in the dialog box, as shown in Figure D.

Figure D

The Registration Changer utility can display the current registration information before you make any changes.

If you want to change the registration information, just enter the text in the appropriate dialog boxes and click OK. When you do, you’ll be prompted to confirm the operation before you proceed, as shown in Figure E.

Figure E

Before the Registration Changer makes any changes to the registry, it gives you a chance to abort the operation.

If you select No, you’ll be returned to the main screen and can start over. If you click Yes, the Registration Changer will apply the changes to the registry. You can then instantly check the results by clicking the Display button. When you’re done, just click Cancel or click Close, and the main Registration window will close.

Blanking out registration information

If you prefer to simply blank out the registration information rather than enter new names, just leave the text boxes blank and click OK.

That’s all there is to it. The Registration Changer makes it easy to edit the registry without fear. As I stated earlier, be sure to back your system up before you go poking around in the registry. It’s not something you should do lightly.

Stay on top of the latest XP tips and tricks with TechRepublic’s Windows XP newsletter, delivered every Thursday. Automatically sign up today!

Incoming search terms:

• registration changer (1)
• registration changer xp (1)
• regreplace windows protection file (1)
• window xp key changer (1)
• xp key changer (1)
• xp registered name changer (1)

In my case, the database files are located in the following directory:

As you may already know, you cannot backup the *.MDF and *.LDF database files directly because they are attached to the SQL Server. You could detach them, back them up, and then re-attach them but then your database will be offline for a period of time.

To solve this problem, we first need to create a SQL file that can be used later to automate our database backup. Here’s how we can do that:

CREATE AN SQL FILE

1. Login to Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio.
2. Right click on your database from the “Databases” node.
3. Select “Tasks” -> “Back up…”
4. You are now presented with the “Back up Database” window. In this window you can specify your backup settings. At a minimum, you need to create a destination for your backup. Click the “Add” button and specify a full path name for your database backup in the “File name” field. You will need to use this path name later, so let’s take note of it.
5. You can choose any other backup options that are important to you. Over on the left hand side is “Options”. I would click on that and decide whether you want to use “append to an existing backup set” or “overwrite all existing backup sets”.
6. Once you are finished with your settings, you need to create an SQL file which will be used later for the automated database backup. To create that SQL file, click on the arrow next to “Script” at the top of the window. There will be an option for “Script action to File”. Go ahead and select that option. You will then be able to save your SQL Server Script File. Take note of where you have saved this file as well.

CREATE A BATCH FILE
Now that we have created the SQL file, we need to create a batch file that can be automatically executed by the Task Scheduler. To create this file, do the following:

1. Open Notepad and enter the following:
   CODE
   sqlcmd -S .\SQLEXPRESS -i “C:\Users\Administrator\Documents\Backup.sql”

   Of course, substitute the pathname with the pathname of where you saved your SQL file.

2. Save this file and take note of where you saved it.
3. Now, using Windows Explorer, go to the directory of where you created this file and rename it to have a .bat filename extension instead of .txt.

SET BATCH FILE TO RUN IN WINDOWS TASK SCHEDULER

We are now ready to add the batch file to the Task Scheduler. Rather than using the Task Scheduler GUI, I prefer to do it on the command line. You can open a command prompt as Administrator or if you are already running as Administrator, you can use Start -> Run. Either way, enter the following:

Again, substitute the pathname above with that of your batch file.
Also, set the time specified to something that is desirable for you. In the above example, we run this task at 3:30 AM.

NOTES:

You may be wondering why I set the Task Scheduler to run a batch file instead of the sqlcmd directly. The reason is two-fold:

1. I could not get the Task Scheduler to run the sqlcmd for some reason.
2. In my batch file I also perform other tasks to make my life easier.

Well I hope this helps someone… Took me a while to figure it out on my own.

Incoming search terms:

• how to use task scheduler for sqlserver database from web server (1)
• microsoft sql express script action to backup a database (1)
• ms sql 2008 backup script (1)
• script backup database php auto mssql (1)
• sql all db backup automatically how (1)
• sql backup database task em servidor linux (1)