Tuesday, November 8, 2022

Check open ports in Windows

 

  • Easiest: Open the Start menu > type command > right-click the Command Prompt app > Run as administrator.
  • Type netstat -ab > press Enter > look for items in the "LISTENING" state. 

Monday, July 18, 2022

If the TotalWidth value is larger than the DataWidth value you have ECC memory.

CMD 


wmic MEMORYCHIP get DataWidth,TotalWidth

If the TotalWidth value is larger than the DataWidth value you have ECC memory.

Example output:

//ECC Memory
DataWidth  TotalWidth
64         72

//Non-ECC Memory
DataWidth  TotalWidth
64         64
Or
wmic memphysical get memoryerrorcorrection

wmic memphysical get memoryerrorcorrection

This will return a code based on the type of memory installed:

Value Meaning 
0 (0x0) Reserved 

1 (0x1) Other 

2 (0x2) Unknown 

3 (0x3) None 

4 (0x4) Parity 

5 (0x5) Single-bit ECC 

6 (0x6) Multi-bit ECC 

7 (0x7) CRC

Tuesday, June 7, 2022

Speed up windows. 

1. Windows 10 Experience score

  • CMD
  • winsat formal -restart
  • powershell /c Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_WinSAT


2. "Graphics Settings" Turn on "Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling.

3. SystemPropertiesAdvanced

Right-click on the Start button and click on Run > type SystemPropertiesAdvanced in Run Command window and click on OK.

sysdm.cpl >Advances > Performance turn off everything except Show shadows under windows Smooth edge screen fonts.

4. Enable  Game Mode for inventor



If you’re a serious gamer, you probably know all about Game Mode, which optimizes your PC for playing games. That’s great for when you’re doing just that, but it can slow down your system when you’re not playing because it multitasks with lots of processes running in the background. So turning off Game Mode can give your PC a quick boost. (You can always turn it back on again when you want to play a game.)

Game Mode is turned on by default, so even if you’ve never played a game on your PC, it’s probably enabled. To turn it off, go to Settings > Gaming > Game Mode and move the Game Mode slider to Off. After you do that, click the Xbox Game Bar category on the left hand side of the screen, and on the screen you come to, turn the slider at the top of the screen to Off.

4. Disable transparency

In addition to turning off shadows, animations and visual effects, you should also disable the transparency effects that Windows 10 uses for the Start menu, the Taskbar and the Action Center. It takes a surprising amount of work for Windows to create these transparency effects, and turning them off can make a difference in system performance.

To do it, from Settings, choose Personalization > Colors, scroll down to “Transparency effects” and move the slider to Off.



Friday, February 18, 2022

BIM360 temp folder

 https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/bim-360-team-forum/desktop-connector-uninstall-error/td-p/9307930


That directory is a temporary "working directory" used for Desktop Connector.  With Desktop Connector not running it is safe to delete the C:\ProgramData\Autodesk\CDX\WD\ directory.

Tuesday, February 8, 2022

Excel string text together

 =TEXTJOIN(" ",TRUE,B2:B12)

Thursday, February 3, 2022

Windows get product key

From Command Prompt 

CMD

wmic path softwarelicensingservice get OA3xOriginalProductKey


Wednesday, January 12, 2022

Get IdentifyingNumber for Intune ID

PowerShell command 

#get all program Id numbers

Get-WMIObject -Query "SELECT * FROM Win32_Product" | FT 


#Get AutoCAD programs

Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Product | where vendor -eq Autodesk | select Name, Version


#Get by program name

Get-CimInstance -Filter 'NAME LIKE "%Desktop Connector%"' -ClassName 'Win32_Product' | Format-Table IdentifyingNumber, Name, Version, LocalPackage -Wrap