Windows

As I mentioned last week, I will discuss various SQL Server installation problems and troubleshooting tips to solve the problem. Last week we discussed how to handle SQL Server work errors stopped working and went through various steps to fix it. So this week I’m discussing another common bug you get when you troubleshoot SQL Server 2008 R2 / 2012, and that is Performance Counter Registry Hive Consistency Check Error. Let’s discuss the context of this error message.

Register counter consistency check failed

You do not need the performance counter in all cases, in some cases you can simply skip it. During installation, a set of performance counters is used to monitor the performance of the data flow engine. read more

In Windows 8 two monitors can be connected very easily to allow a synchronized display of the same operating system. However, due to the introduction of charms bars and scroll bars in Windows 8, this results in a limitation of the cursor when moving from one screen to another in a multi-monitor system. Because of this restriction, the mouse pointer is suspended over the common edge, which obviously covers the right edge of the first monitor and the left edge of the second monitor.

In fact, pasting the cursor helps to make the two functions introduced in Windows 8 work without problems – the drawing bar and the scroll bar. But for some people, it can be boring and they are looking for a way to fix it. read more

BIOS means Basic Input Output System. That’s a lot more than the name suggests. You might think that the BIOS controls the input and output system. But BIOS does much more, and it is not possible for an operating system to continue without a real BIOS. Today we will see what BIOS is in computers.

BIOS has been there in our computers since the time of the DOS disk operating system…. even before the structured DOS created by Microsoft. It is one of the most important components of the computer, although it does not take credit for appearing regularly on your screen. This article also covers the most fundamental component of the computer and explains why it is necessary in computers to make them work. read more

Opening Windows Task Manager and switching to the Performance tab (16) allows you to monitor the operations and activities performed by your computer. Sometimes Windows has a lot of tasks to do, so it may not reflect the exact progress of a particular operation. For example, you can always see the following error , even if the file opened in a program has been closed:

folder in use. The action cannot be completed because the file is opened in another program

You can also get this error with respect to the file. This can be very annoying because Windows or File Explorer must be restarted to remove this warning. And sometimes restarting the Explorer will not help and you may have to restart the machine . read more

This article shows how to Remove earlier versions of Windows from the Windows 10/8/7 boot menu. If you have two versions of the Windows operating system installed on one computer and you uninstall one of them, you will still see the entry for the previous version of Windows in the boot menu.

This problem can also occur after several days of use of the new installation. At each boot, you must select the name of the current operating system and press Enter to boot your system. If you want to remove an earlier version of the Windows boot menu entry, the solution here is to do it with BCDEDIT. read more

The Windows Taskbar Clock displays the date and time. Day, month and year are displayed – and hours and minutes are seconds. In this post we see how to display the second in the clock taskbar with the registry in Windows 10 v1607 or third freeware under Windows 7/8/10.

Before continuing, it is important to know why Microsoft has not integrated this capability into the Windows operating system. Was the constant blinking of the large intestine too disturbing? read more

If you are a Windows user who needs to use the command prompt regularly, it makes sense to enable auto-completion at the command prompt. If you want to make the change permanent, you must modify the Windows registry.

Enable automatic completion at the command prompt

You can enable automatic completion permanently or only for the current session.

To enable automatic PDC completion for the current user for the current command session, open the Run field, type and press Enter. The /f switch turns the completion of file and directory names on or off.

Now press Ctrl+D to complete the folder name or Ctrl+F to complete a file name. Press and hold this key combination to see how file names change. read more

The Check Disk Utility or Chkdsk.exe utility on Windows 10/8/7 and Windows Vista.exe. Check Disk can be run automatically during a crash or when the file system is detected as’dirty’. There may be times when you notice that this disk utility runs automatically each time Windows starts. You may have scheduled the execution or your Windows has decided to execute it. But instead of running only once, it continues each time your Windows computer starts.

Check Disk runs automatically at each boot

Tool in Windows runs at each boot, here are some things you might want to try. read more

Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) essentially helps us connect two systems to a remote location. We have already seen how to enable and disable the remote desktop connection using the RDP protocol. However, when you connect to Windows 8.1, 8, 7 or Vista operating systems using a Remote Desktop, license errors can sometimes occur. In general, you will probably receive a subsequent error in such cases:

The remote session has been disconnected because no Remote Desktop client access license is available for this computer. Please contact the server administrator.

The cause of this problem is that the Terminal Server (TS) is not able to find the license server. Therefore, you have received the message and you cannot bridge one Remote Desktop connection. read more

To prevent access to the command prompt in the window, you can use group policy settings or modify the Windows registry to disable the command prompt. When you do this, it prevents users from running the interactive command prompt or CMD.exe. Let’s see how we can do this under Windows 8/7.

Disable command prompt

Using GPO

Open the Run field, type gpedit.msc and press Enter to open the local group policy editor. Navigate to the next path:

User Configuration/Administrative Templates/System

In the right pane, you see Prevent access to the command prompt. Double-click to define the strategy. Select On and click Apply/OK. read more