Create a boot trace using WPR
Hi all, I am Helmut Wagensonner, a Customer Engineer at Microsoft. This blog post gives a short overview on how to create a boot trace with Windows Performance Recorder. It…
GimmeNote
General Information GimmeNote is an Outlook VSTO plugin written in C#. It enables users to add notes to mail and appointment items. GimmeNote is designed to work with your primary…
Programmatically delete a user’s profile
Deleting old and orphaned user profiles on a PC can easily be done using the Advanced System Properties dialog. But is there a way to delete local Profiles remotely? In…
Fix orphaned Start Menu items
Hey community, this is Helmut Wagensonner, a Customer Engineer for Windows Client platform. Today I want to provide you a workaround for an issue I ran into a couple of…
Stay awake!
From time to time it appears that I need to keep my PC running and prevent it from going to sleep. There are a couple of places where screen timeouts…
UE-V Template Generator Error
Related to: ADK 1703, 1709, 1803, 1809 After installing the UE-V Template generator it throws an error when you try to create a custom template. In the following example I'm…
Disassemble Powershell CMDlets
Hey community, I am Helmut Wagensonner, a Customer Engineer at Microsoft and with today’s blog I show you, how to look behind the implementation of Powershell CMDLets. Ever wondered how…
Making file type associations enterprise ready
You may have noticed already that file type association has changed fundamentally in Windows 10. It is no longer possible for Administrators to set the default application for a certain…
PCRDump
When running into Bitlocker recovery issues I always used the tools PCPTool (written by Stefan Thom) and Win7PCRv2 (actually I couldn’t figure out who coded this one) to dump the…