Of course the obvious answer was “systeminfo” .

How about create a shortcut on your desktop to click on and get an answer to specifics?

Right click on the desktop create a shortcut and add the code into the location and name it accordingly. Now you can show off your geek understanding of your system.

CPU Current Voltage and Caption
cmd /k wmic cpu get caption,currentvoltage

Current Clock Speed
cmd /k wmic cpu get CurrentClockSpeed,MaxClockSpeed /every:3

Memory Card Information
cmd /k wmic memorychip get FormFactor,serialnumber,partnumber,speed,capacity,name

BIOS Information
cmd /k wmic bios get name,version,serialnumber

MotherBoard Information
cmd /k wmic baseboard get manufacturer,serialnumber

Get Network Card MacAddress
cmd /k wmic nic get macaddress,description,speed

Disk Drive Information
cmd /k wmic diskdrive get model,serialnumber,size

More questions please ping me via twitter or facebook.

 

More of a task list I guess.

• Windows 7 boot manager to include Microsoft security tools.. Just about have it finished. *think when you hit f8 you will have your safe mode options as well as Microsoft security tools (basically windows pe with antivirus). *
• A windows version of r-sync…. Details to follow.
• minimizing windows 7 footprint without losing functionality.

Any other suggestions…? Possibly start updating my posts again?

 

I have owned three types of Andoid devices. All better than the other. All came with Amazon MP3 pre-installed. Since I typically don’t use my phone as a MP3 player I never touched the application. I didn’t want to look like one of those trendy Iphone people with their ear buds in and playing with the phone too much. Now before I get too much hate mail or comments know that I was an early adopter to the Apple Ipod when you “had” to have a Mac to use the thing. Yes I was caught up in the madness. Simply got sick of paying steve jobs too much money for his drm music and crappy itunes support.

That said. I jumped on to the Amazon Cloud ride a few days ago. Skeptical that it would be anything really cool. Just like when I ventured in to the Amazon S3 realm it got really expensive really fast. Not to say it wasn’t great but I couldn’t afford the bandwidth and storage costs. I know its pennies but they do add up.

The Cloud drive is what all media devices need. Be it Iphone, Android, PSP or the dreaded WinPhone7.  I have been waiting for something like this to show up so that I can store my music and stream it to a device (like my android). My only hope is that it becomes bigger and better and more supported by more devices.

Great job Amazon. Please don’t mess this up.

Comments Hate mail or anything fun. Look me up on twitter or on facebook.

 

What does this have to do with Windows activation? Jolly good question. Not much I guess. However I am stuck inside the server room without windows (physical windows (with panes, you know.)) day dreaming.

Dreaming of a better way to get the windows 7 activation to be done in a much smoother scripted way.

Thus far I have only found the vbs script that is already used in this process.

“slmgr.vbs”

What can be done with this wonderful vbscript? Well basically what I mentioned before.

Windows Software Licensing Management Tool

Usage: slmgr.vbs [MachineName [User Password]] [<Option>]

MachineName: Name of remote machine (default is local machine)

User:        Account with required privilege on remote machine

Password:    password for the previous account

Global Options:

/ipk <Product Key>

Install product key (replaces existing key)

/ato [Activation ID]

Activate Windows

/dli [Activation ID | All]

Display license information (default: current license)

/dlv [Activation ID | All]

Display detailed license information (default: current license)

/xpr [Activation ID]

Expiration date for current license state

Advanced Options:

/cpky

Clear product key from the registry (prevents disclosure attacks)

/ilc <License file>

Install license

/rilc

Re-install system license files

/rearm

Reset the licensing status of the machine

/upk [Activation ID]

Uninstall product key

/dti [Activation ID]

Display Installation ID for offline activation

/atp <Confirmation ID> [Activation ID]

Activate product with user-provided Confirmation ID

Volume Licensing: Key Management Service (KMS) Client Options:

/skms <Name[:Port] | : port> [Activation ID] [Activation ID]

Set the name and/or the port for the KMS computer this machine will use. IPv6 address must be specified in the format [hostname]:port

/ckms [Activation ID]

Clear name of KMS computer used (sets the port to the default)

/skhc

Enable KMS host caching

/ckhc

Disable KMS host caching

Volume Licensing: Token-based Activation Options:

/lil

List installed Token-based Activation Issuance Licenses

/ril <ILID> <ILvID>

Remove installed Token-based Activation Issuance License

/ctao

Clear Token-based Activation Only flag (default)

/stao

Set Token-based Activation Only flag

/ltc

List Token-based Activation Certificates

/fta <Certificate Thumbprint> [<PIN>]

Force Token-based Activation

Volume Licensing: Key Management Service (KMS) Options:

/sprt <Port>

Set TCP port KMS will use to communicate with clients

/sai <Activation Interval>

Set interval (minutes) for unactivated clients to attempt KMS connection. The activation interval must be between 15 minutes (min) and 30 days (max) although the default (2 hours) is recommended.

/sri <Renewal Interval>

Set renewal interval (minutes) for activated clients to attempt KMS connection. The renewal interval must be between 15 minutes (min) and 30 days (max) although the default (7 days) is recommended.

/sdns

Enable DNS publishing by KMS (default)

/cdns

Disable DNS publishing by KMS

/spri

Set KMS priority to normal (default)

/cpri

Set KMS priority to low

You say holy crap batman! That’s a ton of commands.

The one I like the most right now:

slmgr.vbs/dli

So you now have all the activation info about your pc. Using Command prompt but how do I access the gui version?

Hit the windows ball(start button) type in the search: sligui.exe and there you go. How do you get to the call microsoft gui? “slui.exe 4”

Anyway back to work.

Questions comments or just confused twitter me or facebook me

 

You should be well acquainted with chkdsk command and a really good defrag utility.

Hard drives are pretty fickle. Work for a long long time and then one tuesday at 3:43pm  they take a turn for the worst.

So how to use and what are the best practices? Here is Microsoft’s Best Practice for NTFS. Download me!

Also here is a cool little “GUI” version of Chkdsk. Download

Now chkdsk is my favorite app via console to make sure of health. There are a ton more ways. Here is my default.

Chkdsk Drive (C:) /v /r where drive is C: or whatever you drive.

Try it out.

Questions? Compliments? Hit me up on the old twitter or facebook

Need a new hard drive contact Problem Solved Computer Repair

 

So your thinking to yourself how do I know if I am in an earthquake or the big truck next door is carrying a large amount of boulders as it drives by?

Have the USGS send you an txt message or email when the earth starts a shakin’

Go register for free at the their website

Don’t forget to give or donate equally to the red cross relief for New Zealand and Japan citizens.

 

Yes yet another Microsoft product we are talking about. I gotta write scripts so this one man Web administrator can get some sleep at night.

Here is a fun little SQL script that will give you all sorts of info concerning IO and Buffers and well crap that will only bore most of you.

Works well on MSSQL 2005 and up:

“

DECLARE @TotalIO    BIGINT,
@TotalBytes BIGINT,
@TotalStall BIGINT

SELECT @TotalIO  = SUM(NumberReads + NumberWrites),
@TotalBytes = SUM(BytesRead + BytesWritten),
@TotalStall = SUM(IoStallMS)
FROM ::FN_VIRTUALFILESTATS(NULL, NULL)

SELECT [DbName] = DB_NAME([DbId]),
(SELECT name FROM sys.master_files
WHERE database_id = [DbId]
and FILE_ID = [FileId]) filename,
[%ReadWrites]       = (100 * (NumberReads + NumberWrites) / @TotalIO),
[%Bytes]        = (100 * (BytesRead + BytesWritten) / @TotalBytes),
[%Stall]        = (100 * IoStallMS / @TotalStall),
[NumberReads],
[NumberWrites],
[TotalIO]       = CAST((NumberReads + NumberWrites) AS BIGINT),
[MBsRead]       = [BytesRead] / (1024*1024),
[MBsWritten]        = [BytesWritten] / (1024*1024),
[TotalMBs]      = (BytesRead + BytesWritten) / (1024*1024),
[IoStallMS],
IoStallReadMS,
IoStallWriteMS,
[AvgStallPerIO]     = ([IoStallMS] / ([NumberReads] + [NumberWrites] + 1)),
[AvgStallPerReadIO] = (IoStallReadMS / ([NumberReads] + 1)),
[AvgStallPerWriteIO]= (IoStallWriteMS / ( [NumberWrites] + 1)),

[AvgBytesPerRead]  = ((BytesRead) / (NumberReads + 1)),
[AvgBytesPerWrite] = ((BytesWritten) / (NumberWrites + 1))
FROM ::FN_VIRTUALFILESTATS(NULL, NULL)
ORDER BY dbname

“

copy paste and name it something that makes sense “*.sql” Run it and enjoy your output.

Send me a screenshot of your stats on twitter or facebook

 

However not about its flaws but about a cool little way to compete with your neighbor.

I work on a rather small LAN at work. However as you know geeks are geeks and its always fun to go after the next guy to see who has the best performing pc on the small LAN.

You get guys like me making my machine look like it’s a “GODs OWN MACHINE” with a (7.9) score on a Pentium 4 with 3gigs of ram. By the way if you really think that can happen? It can’t however you can hack your score to show that number.

So it looks like I have a little crow to eat. So to speak. However while I am chewing on it have a look at a little script I wrote to scan your LAN and compare each others WEI score. Or you can be just sneaky and see what your neighbors is before he slays you. Your choice.

Here is the script in its entirety:

“

strCompName = Inputbox(“Get Hardware Performance Ratings” & vbcrlf & “of a Remote computer,” & vbcrlf & “Input the Computer Name:”)

Set objWMIservices = GetObject(“winmgmts:\\” & strCompName & “\root\cimv2″)
Set colWSA = objWMIservices.ExecQuery(“Select * From Win32_WinSAT”)

For Each objItem in colWSA
Wscript.Echo “Hardware Performance Ratings”
Wscript.Echo “Processor : ” & objItem.CPUScore
Wscript.Echo “Memory: ” & objItem.MemoryScore
Wscript.Echo “Graphics: ” & objItem.GraphicsScore
Wscript.Echo “Gaming graphics: ” & objItem.D3DScore
Wscript.Echo “Primary hard disk: ” & objItem.DiskScore
next

”

Fun Easy and well I guess mean. You be the judge and let me know how you use it on twitter or on facebook

Of course if you need an upgrade to make you computer super awesomely special hit up Problem Solved Computer Repair

 

So to all the Windows geeks out there. I have the best machine on the planet according to my Windows Experience Index.

Scott Hanselman had an article of how he spent about 3k on a machine and could only get 7.8.

To that I say nah nah nah nah (mockingly).

 

So things are going swimmingly with Windows 7. Its fast makes Vista even worse and gall darn we liked it.

However when you install Service pack 1 there is a process compiling in the background and killing you boot times.

I love performance. I love to tune any app to its highest potential. Now I have to enjoy waiting for my OS to compile .NET libraries before it resumes the OS?

a process called mscorsvw.exe which has a CPU usage of more than 50%  ! This service is actually used by .Net framework to pre-compile. So, what is the mscorsvw.exe process and how to deal with it?

David Notario’s long back made the following observation on Microsoft’s MSDN blog:

mscorsvw.exe is precompiling .NET assemblies in the background. Once it’s done, it will go away. Typically, after you install the .NET Redist, it will be done with the high priority assemblies in 5 to 10 minutes and then will wait until your computer is idle to process the low priority assemblies. Once it does that it will shutdown and you won’t see mscorsvw.exe. One important thing is that while you may see 100% CPU usage, the compilation happens in a process with low priority, so it tries not to steal the CPU for other stuff you are doing. Once everything is compiled, assemblies will now be able to share pages across different processes and warm start up will be typically much faster, so we’re not throwing away your cycles.

Sad thing is you can’t just kill it through task manager. You have to drop into a command prompt to fix it.

If you don’t want to wait until your computer is idle, so that it can start compiling, you can do the following:

1. Navigate to “C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727” in Windows Explorer.

2. Click on Start, type CMD and run it. On command prompt specify the above path and typengen.exe executequeueditems. This command will process all pending work. Once this is done, the service will shutdown, as it has nothing else to do.

3. Restart your computer, now you will see that there will be no mscorsvw.exe process running in Task Manager!

This trick will help you until Microsoft releases an official fix for this problem.

Thanks to TheWindowsClub for the research.

If you are argrivated by this travesty. Let me know on twitter or facebook.