When you are migrating a file server to a new server, and transfer data to your new SMB share, you may need to recreate junction points, as they can’t be copied using (for example) Robocopy. Therefore it’s a must to know where you have junction points, and that’s where plain old DIR comes to the rescue.
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To add a .reg file silently to your Windows registry, you can use the regedit command. As almost always, the /s parameter is for silent and /q for quiet.
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On a newly installed workstation or server, you might encountered the following subversion error when you commit a change:
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The Forfiles command on Windows selects and executes a command on a file or set of files. Forfiles is ideal for batch processing through scripts. For instance on Windows Server systems. With Forfiles, you can run a command on or pass arguments to multiple files. For example, you could run the type command on all files in a tree with the .txt extension. Or you could execute every batch file (*.bat) on drive C, with the file name “Myinput.txt” as the first argument.
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After not using Windows Live Mail for quite some time, it gave me an error code 0x80041161. This Windows Live Mail error can have several different reasons, like corrupt files or services that aren’t started, not easing the task of identifying the cause. Read on to learn how to fix this Windows Live Mail error 0x80041161…