Extend Windows Partition contains Recovery Partition

Introduction Did you ever in a critical situation because your production Virtual Machine was running out of space but you were not able to extend the disk because there was recovery partition exist on the end of C:\ volume. This situation blocks you from extending the disk in a critical situation. We can actually just remove the recovery partition, and extend the disk, but we will lose the recovery partition which is important for troubleshooting purposes....

March 23, 2022 · 4 min · by Chisqi

Reset Windows Password with Bitloker Enabled

Overview Have you ever forgot the computer password, and want to reset it? Typically, you just need to boot into Windows installer ISO, open cmd and rename the utilman.exe. However, you can’t do that if the bitlocker is enabled on that computer. You will need to disable the bitlocker first. On this article, I want to share how to disable the bitlocker and reset the forgotten password. This require either the Bitlocker Password or Bitlocker Recovery Key...

September 1, 2021 · 2 min · by Chisqi

Windows - Install chocolatey

Install chocolatey Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol -bor 3072; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://community.chocolatey.org/install.ps1')) Check package online choco.exe list SoftwareName choco.exe find SoftwareName Install package cocho install appname Check installed package clist -l choco list --local-only Uninstall package choco uninstall SoftwareName

February 23, 2021 · 1 min · by Chisqi

Windows Remove Obsolete Drivers

Overview After the hardware upgrade or peripheral changes on the windows desktop or server, it typically leaves obsolete drivers that were no longer needed and needed to be removed. Here are the steps to find and remove those obsolete drivers. To find the drivers. Using PowerShell: Open PowerShell as an administrator. To display a complete list of installed drivers, run the following command: Get-WmiObject Win32_PnPSignedDriver | Select-Object DeviceName, DeviceClass, Manufacturer, DriverVersion, DriverDate, InfName | Out-GridView Using DISM dism /online /get-drivers /format:table This will show you a table with details like device name, class, manufacturer, driver version, installation date, and the driver’s ....

February 2, 2021 · 1 min · by Chisqi

Windows Backup command line - wbadmin

Introduction wbadmin stands for “Windows Backup Administrator” and is a command-line tool included in Microsoft Windows operating systems for managing and performing various backup and recovery tasks. It provides administrators with the ability to create, manage, and restore backups of the system, volumes, files, and applications. Using wbadmin, you can perform tasks such as: Creating Backups: You can use wbadmin to create full system backups, incremental backups, and backup copies of specific files and folders....

January 16, 2019 · 2 min · by Chisqi

Windows Manage Local Users and Groups - CMD

Overview To manage local users and groups from the command line in Windows, you can use the netcommand and wmic (Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line) utility. Please note that administrative privileges are required to perform these operations. Here is some of commands we can use the manage the local users and group from the command line / CMD. net user Username Password /add # Creating a Local User: net user Username secret-password # Changing a User's Password: net user Username * # To hide the password....

March 3, 2016 · 1 min · by Chisqi

Windows Check Health And Repair

Attention: The process might take times depending on multiple conditions Run Scan Repair sfc /scannow Online Check health. DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth Online Scan Health DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth Online Restore Health DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth Offline Restore Health DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth /Source:E:\Sources\install.wim DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth /Source:C:\RepairSource\Windows /LimitAccess

March 2, 2016 · 1 min · by Chisqi