Receiving Windows 7 File In Use Errors or File Locked By Process Errors

For some reason I’ve been getting issues with applications trying to update themselves, file lock errors will occur. Today it started happening with Steam, it downloaded an update and tried to run but was unable to remove the Steam.exe file stating that it was in use. I did a bit of googling and found that … Read more

Exporting DHCP Leases to HTML or CSV in Windows Server

If you’re looking to export your DHCP leases on your Windows Server into a readable format, then the following article will help. http://theadminguy.com/2009/10/14/export-dhcp-leases-to-html-using-powershell/ You can also simply run the following command and copy and paste it into excel and it should match the columns correctly.    

How to Combat Conficker on a Large Network

The following is information and tools for dealing with a Conficker Outbreak on a Large Enterprise Network with lots of clients. How to unlock all of your Active Directory Accounts with a script. Const ADS_SCOPE_SUBTREE = 2 Const ADS_UF_LOCKOUT = &H10 Set objRootDSE = GetObject(“LDAP://rootDSE”) strDNSDomain = objRootDSE.Get(“defaultNamingContext”) Set objCommand = CreateObject(“ADODB.Command”) Set objConnection = … Read more