by Roy Davis | May 31, 2014 | Windows |
Shell commands are one of those time savers that are fun to use but not many IT pros use them. See below for the more useful shell commands. In order to quickly open special folders in Windows, you can use shell:COMMAND as a shortcut to access these folders. You can...
by Roy Davis | May 31, 2014 | Windows |
To get a complete list of the environmental variables on your system, all you need to do is type set into a CMD prompt. Here are some of the most common, most useful environment variables for Windows: LocationNotesWin7 x64Vista x64Vista x86XPAll Users...
by Roy Davis | May 31, 2014 | Windows |
There are way more commands to run in Windows than you're currently using. Here's a list of useful run commands for Windows you can start using right now if you already aren't. Enjoy the speed! Office Shortcuts winword – Microsoft Word excel – Microsoft Excel powerpnt...
by Roy Davis | May 31, 2014 | Windows |
It's easier now than ever before to rollback or remove a Windows patch. To avoid this kind of stuff in the future, test Windows patches before deploying. This applies to systems running Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 8, and Windows Server 2012. I ran into...
by Roy Davis | Apr 6, 2014 | Windows |
If you upgrade your Windows OS to 7 or 8 and do not format your hard drive partition, you will have to remove the Windows.old folder that takes up substantial space. When you're ready to reclaim your space do the following: Remove the Windows.old Folder in Windows 8...
by Roy Davis | Mar 6, 2014 | Windows |
If you can't open Outlook 2010, I just might have something for you. I helped a user solve this problem recently. This is as far as they could get: After the loading screen, the full error is “Cannot open your default e-mail folders. The information store could...
by Roy Davis | Feb 25, 2014 | Windows |
I ran into an issue on my Windows 7 box where the Windows system rating does not finish. This is part of the Windows Experience Index. Everything would start fine and the tests would start and run through. However, when the scores would calculate it would suddenly...
by Roy Davis | Feb 25, 2014 | Windows |
If the Windows installer has stopped working or the service itself has stopped, one troubleshooting technique is to unregister, and then re-register the Windows installer. This is for Windows 2000 but see below for other versions covered. Open an elevated command...
by Roy Davis | Feb 25, 2014 | Windows |
The Windows 7 install process isn't that bad. It's a lot more compatible with hardware than Vista was. It still may run you for a loop if you live and die by XP though. Here is a quick, checklist style guide on how I installed WIndows 7: Go into BIOS – ‘Del' on...
by Roy Davis | Feb 25, 2014 | Windows |
Windows Vista and 7 have a safety feature to safely shutdown running programs, so if your sidebar is running you may see – Waiting for sidebar.exe. The rest of the annoying prompt is – This program is preventing Windows from shutting down. The best method...
by Roy Davis | Feb 25, 2014 | Windows |
Here are the recovery partition function keys necessary to boot a Windows laptop into the recovery partition on most models. Windows XP Recovery Partition Function Keys Acer: Alt+F10 or F10 Asus: F9 Dell: F8 or Shift+F8, older models: Ctrl+F11 Fujitsu: Alt+F11 or F12,...
by Roy Davis | Feb 25, 2014 | Windows |
You can make your Windows 7 installer no longer have a specific version set as the default version. Upon doing this, you will then be prompted to install any edition of Windows 7. Simply choose the version you wish to install, and you're good to go. This is because...
Hi, I'm Roy, I created Best of Roy in college to blog about my interests and fun stuff on the Internet. From there, Best of Roy turned into a portfolio site and eventually turned into the collection of professional interests you see now. I'm originally an IT person by trade, but transitioned to Cyber Security in 2014. Stick around to see some helpful solutions for up and coming pros, all the way to enterprise level solutions.