Windows – Domain Web Center

You can sign PowerShell certificates with New-SelfSignedCertificate and without MakeCert

2023-08-14 Udar Gromov 1

For those who can’t wait, here is the solution right away. Next two lines actually work – without using MakeCert.exe: New-SelfSignedCertificate -DnsName STA07 -Type CodeSigning Set-AuthenticodeSignature C:\T\add-signature.ps1 @(gci Cert:\LocalMachine\My -DnsName STA07 -codesigning)[0] First command creates a certificate in both Current User and Local Computer Intermediate Certification Authorities. Second command […]

Extremely Slow Windows XP Shutdown – Fixed

2023-05-05 Udar Gromov 15

Several years I had this problem in one particular instance of Windows XP Professional – an extremely slow shutdown upon clicking on Shutdown button. For several minutes system would completely freeze, and then Shutdown/Restart dialog box would finally come up. What did I know about the problem. It was extremely […]

PHP chokes server with TEMP files – Updated and Solved

2023-04-23 Udar Gromov 0

I am running PHP on IIS 7.5. This is a Windows 2012 Server. Fresh clean install every time. The only way to access and delete these TEMP files are by using a command prompt. And this deletion procedure will run for several DAYS . . . The Problem The story […]

PC Sleep and PC Hibernate Shortcuts

2023-04-19 Udar Gromov 4

Everybody wants a shortcut for PS Sleep to save time on clicks. Instead of 3 clicks Start – Shutdown – Sleep every time, let’s have just one click – Sleep. There is a way to do that. Please tell me, if this also works in Windows XP. […]

Windows Photo Viewer: Can’t Rotate Images on a Network Drive – Solved!

2023-03-30 Udar Gromov 1

It is the the LITTLE problems that annoys the most! I love Windows, but why Windows is so awkward in same strange and unexpected ways? This article is about one of such problems – Image viewing and rotation. Why it is so hard? Do not even think to joke here. There […]

Error 2155348315 in Windows 7 Backup – Resolved

2023-03-21 Udar Gromov 1

I started getting this error 2155348315 in Windows 7 Backup, when I switched from wired to a Wi-Fi connection on my desktop PC. Here is what happened… […]

Win 7 and Win 8 – How to Rename All System Directories
(and W2K8 Server, and R2, and XP too)

2023-02-18 Udar Gromov 7

If only you could control names of directories, where Microsoft installs Windows, Data and Program Files. If you could, you would be able to install multiple instances of operating system on the same drive. So. let’s do it anyway. To do that you need two parallel installs of you favorite […]

Invisible Files in Windows 7, 8 and 10 Program Files

2023-01-22 Udar Gromov 3

Summary First of all – it is not a virus! It is not a bug either. It is a feature, that doesn’t allow legacy applications to write files inside Program Files directory. This feature allows legacy applications think that they are writing to a system folders. Symptoms You can see […]

Moving Win XP from RAID to RAID Machine

2023-01-14 Udar Gromov 6

After several days of heavy exhausting battles and sleepless nights, after testing dozens of options, after browsing many proposed Internet solutions, I finally was able to move an old instance of Windows XP on a new machine with new RAID drivers. That happened at 13:23 on December 12, 2010. I […]

Histiry of This Site – DomainWebCenter.com

2022-12-14 Udar Gromov 3

Welcome! This is not a typical article for reading. This is a log of important events about site development and growth. 2022 Oct 26 Wed These last 2 weeks over79K new users were registered on our site. Registration process created over 1.4 mil records in 2 user-related tables. Only one […]

Resolved: The system cannot find message text for message number (0x2350)…

2022-12-09 Udar Gromov 11

Problem This article will show you how to resolve error 0x2350 or 0x2331 after you renamed cmd.exe or any other application file in System32 folder. What a pleasure to resolve a long standing problem. And not by an accident. No. But by applying a heavy-duty problem-solving pressure tactic. This is gold, Jerry, gold! […]