A blog about curiosity being a good habit
It is easy to fall into old learnings and habits with Windows because it can be difficult to keep up with the latest methods. Also, you’re not in a position to run PHP on a linux stack, so Windows it is. If you’ve been around Windows and IIS for a long time, you might still… Continue reading How to CORRECTLY install PHP 7.4.16 for IIS on Windows
Use Get-Content and Get-Item in Powershell Looking for the tail command on Windows? Get-Content will do the trick. Here’s a link to the command page. Open PowerShell: Show the last line/s: Get-Content C:\inetpub\logs\LogFiles\W3SVC1\u_ex200711.log -Tail 1 Or use get-item Get-Item -Path .\LineNumbers.txt | Get-Content -Tail 1 Stream the file like tail -f Get-Content path-to-file -wait Example:… Continue reading Linux tail -f replacement on Windows
Update the Windows Registry Start > Run > regedit Registry path: HKLM SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SecurityProviders\SCHANNEL\Protocols Open TLS 1.2 For both Client and Server, double click Enable and set the REG_DWORD to 1. Click Ok, then reboot (but see below first). Lockdown various protocols for IIS While you’re configuring TLS, you may as well lock down IIS. The… Continue reading How to turn on TLS 1.2 in Windows 2019
I wanted to get the Intel® Extreme Tuning Utility installed and play around with some overclocking on my 2017 HP Spectre X360 13″, which I’m currently running with an HP Omen e-gpu and an Nvidia GTX-1060Ti. I downloaded the software from Intel (version 6.5.1.321) and it would not install: error 0x80070643 attempted to install on… Continue reading Intel XTU error 0x80070643 attempted to install on an unsupported platform
Use this query in SQL Management Studio to directly search the Full Text Search index. select * from sys.dm_fts_parser(‘”search term”‘, 1033, NULL, 0) Note that there are upcoming changes to FTI, including many deprecated functions, so if you’re using it extensively you probably have some work to do.
You log into your Microsoft Windows machine one day and open Chrome and all you get is: ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE So you get that little bit of panic going since you need to be on a call in 5 minutes and you can’t access the Internet (or so you think). You open IE, then Edge, then Firefox… Continue reading Telerik Fiddler and ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE
Windows is slowly, but surely, catching up to the hundreds of useful utilities for reading file content that *nix have had for forever. As you know, opening a 1 gig log file in notepad is impossible. Even using Notepad++, which can open some pretty large files, will not open a 1 gig file. Thank you,… Continue reading How to use Tail in Windows Powershell
Microsoft Windows Powershell is a very useful tool that brought some sanity to managing Windows outside the GUI. To find the version you are running, open Powershell, paste and hit enter: $PSVersionTable.PSVersion Result: Windows PowerShell Copyright (C) 2015 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. PS C:\Users\username> $PSVersionTable.PSVersion Major Minor Build Revision —– —– —– ——– 5 0… Continue reading How to get what version of Powershell you are using
Open CMD as Administrator: Export AppPools All %windir%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd list apppool /config /xml > c:\apppools.xml Single %windir%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd list apppool “MyAppPool” /config /xml > c:\myapppool.xml Export Sites %windir%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd list site /config /xml > c:\sites.xml or in txt format (not very useful) %windir%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd list site > c:\sites.txt
When using BASH on WSL, by default it will constantly beep at you while using the TAB key, etc. Here’s how to remove it: nano ~/.inputrc Scroll down and remove the # comment from: #set bell-style none Close and re-open Bash. Vi also has a bell sound (I prefer Nano for whatever reason). In that… Continue reading Remove annoying beep sound on Windows Subsystem for Linux