Application error codes
When an application execution fails, it usually returns an error code to specify the cause of the problem. Windows error codes Application Error code Cause Workaround Visual Studio -2147205120 The computer has a pending restart and must be rebooted…
Send Alt-Control-Delete to a Windows server via Remote Desktop
When you log into a Windows server via the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) in some cases you need to send the Alt-Control-Delete ( in other notations Alt-Ctrl-Del, Control-Alt-Delete, Ctrl-Alt-Del ) key combination to the remote server. From a Macintosh…
org.apache.jasper.JasperException: java.lang.IllegalStateException: No output folder
This error can happen on Linux and Windows, and the cause could be the same. On Windows Server 2012R2 I opened a command prompt. To be able to delete a directory from the Tomcat webapps folder, I have issued the shutdown command. When I started the…
Git Bash and Command Prompt cannot see the VirtualBox shared folder on Windows 10 guest
When you start a Windows 10 guest machine in VirtualBox on your workstation, you can set up shared folders to seamlessly copy files between your workstation and the Windows 10 guest machine. The shared folder appears in Windows Explorer as a mapped…
Refresh the environment variables in the Windows Command Prompt and PowerShell window
When the Windows Command Prompt and PowerShell windows open, they read the environment variables from the registry. If another process changes the value of an environment variable or creates a new one, the already open windows don’t reflect those…
Install Git on Windows
If you use two-factor authentication see Create a Personal Access Token to use it as password in the command line tools at Switching to 2-factor authentication in GitHub Configure Git for Windows Enable Page Up and Page Down Enable…
Install Chocolatey
The Chocolatey home page is at https://chocolatey.org/ Install Chocolatey Navigate to the Chocolatey website at https://chocolatey.org/ and follow the latest instructions. Individuals should navigate to https://chocolatey.org/install. At the…
Determine the Windows PowerShell version
To reliably display the version of the Windows PowerShell engine Open a PowerShell command window, Execute the command, $PSVersionTable.PSVersion PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> $PSVersionTable.PSVersion Major Minor Build Revision —– …
Enable PowerShell execution in Windows
The default settings of Windows disable the PowerShell script execution. This protects your computer in case a malicious PowerShell script would try to make changes on your machine. The same settings prevent you from executing your own automation scripts…
The security database on the server does not have a computer account for this workstation trust relationship
Time to time Windows servers may lose the trust of the domain. When you try to log in with your domain credentials you get the dreaded message: The security database on the server does not have a computer account for this workstation trust relationship…