Reclaiming disk space from thin provisioned VMDK files on ESXi
Viewed 1825 times since Sun, Feb 27, 2022
Step 1: Delete the blocks on the Guest OS Windows Operating System Download SDelete Command Line Tool available at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/sdelete Note: SDelete -z will cause the guest OS to use up 100...
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Configure Windows to Automatically connect to VPN by Windows Task Scheduler
Viewed 396 times since Mon, Oct 10, 2022
1. Create the VPN connection 2. Write a batch file to connect to VPN 3. Create a scheduled task in Windows task scheduler that will kick off the batch file at Windows start up Here are the steps in detail: 1. Create your VPN connection I am not...
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Windows VPN route selective traffic by destination network
Viewed 374 times since Tue, Dec 27, 2022
route print route -p add {network} mask {subnet mask} {gateway} route delete {network} mask {subnet mask} {gateway} ============================================= Sample: route -p add 192.168.0.12 mask 255.255.255.255 10.100.100.254...
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Where are the shortcuts for the Windows 7 Taskbar stored on disk?
Viewed 346 times since Tue, Jan 24, 2023
Taskbar shortcuts are located in: %AppData%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar. You can also add the "Quick Launch" folder to your task bar as a toolbar to re-enable the quick launch feature.
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