Posts Tagged “Windows”

Capture the output from a Scheduled Task

Today I had to diagnose a problem with a Windows Scheduled Task that was sporadically failing with a non-zero return code. The exe in question was a .NET console application that was throwing an exception before Main() got called; it was outside our try-catch block. Anyway, if you ran the .exe from a command line [...]

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Fix annoying quote key behaviour in Windows

At work over the past few months I have occasionally encountered a rather strange problem on newly-installed PCs. The problem is quite simple: If you type a single quote (‘) or double quote (“), nothing happens. If you type another, two suddenly appear. Furthermore, if you hit a quote key at one position then move [...]

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Troubleshooting Windows module dependencies

I have just got a new computer at work, and over the past week I have been installing all the software that I like to use. One tool I rely on is IISAdmin, a program that sits in the system tray and allows you to run multiple IIS websites under non-server editions of Windows. Unfortunately, [...]

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