Installation

Selecting different HAL during installation

A different HAL (e.g. Standard HAL instead of ACPI HAL) can be chosen on installation by hitting F5 during the Press F6 if you need to install a third party SCSI or RAID driver message.

Active Directory

Force Group Policy Object update on a client machine:

gpupdate

Commands

Recursive directory removal

rmdir /s /q [directory]

Removing desktop.ini files from a directory structure

FOR /f %G in ('dir /b') do attrib %G\desktop.ini -h -s
FOR /f %G in ('dir /b') do del %G\desktop.ini

Shortcuts

Run application with administrative privileges

Ctrl+Shift+Enter when clicking on a shortcut will launch an application with administrative privileges. Works on Windows Vista and above. Usually brings up a User Account Protection (UAP) dialog.


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