Saturday, November 17, 2012

Windows Shortcuts

Turn User Account Control on or off

Start => Control Panel => User Accounts

Command line commands

  • secpol.msc - Open Local Security Policy Editor
  • mstsc - remote desktop
  • inetmgr - iis manager
  • control userpasswords2 - configure autologon

Zero empty space

sdelete -z

Resize vmware disk

"D:\BIN\VMware\VMware Workstation\vmware-vdiskmanager" -x 7.9GB g2data.vmdk

Determine installed SQL Server instances and their versions?

All of the instances installed should show up in the Services Snap-In in the Microsoft Management Console. To get the instance names, go to Start | Run | type Services.msc and look for all entries with "Sql Server (Instance Name)". [1]