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Technology 22 Jan 2021 👁 218 views

311 Windows 10: Fix Flashing Desktop Icons in 3 Steps

Just popping this here as I have had this a few times. Have you ever had your desktop icons flash and if you check explorer.exe its using high CPU. If so try: Step 1. Delete the Icon Cache Save the following as a batch file on your desktop and run it as admin: Step 2. […]

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Open Source 29 Mar 2007 👁 95 views

319 Get Process Name Without Admin Rights in C# (3 Steps)

Unfortunately, the following (seemingly harmless code) requires administrator rights (and on Windows 2003 you will need to be member of “Performance Monitor Users” group): In most cases this is not appropriate and certainly not in a Citrix environment. If you call it without the correct permissions you the following stack dump: Below is a light […]

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Networking 01 Nov 2006 👁 54 views

320 qwinsta & rwinsta: Manage Remote Terminal Sessions

I regularly administer Windows 2000 Server and Windows Server 2003 machine using Terminal Services. In W2K I use Terminal Services in Administration mode and in W2K3 I use Remote Desktop. Basically this is the same thing but it’s packaged a bit differently on the two OSes. In both situations there are only 2 users allowed […]

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