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How to check who killed process in windows

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In this article, I am going to show you, how to identify the reason behind windows process termination. The procedure is valid on all windows platforms whether its windows 7, 8 10 or Server 2008 R2, 2012 R2 or Windows 2016.However, you need to download the compatible Windows debugging tools kit for Windows 32 bit and 64 bit. Windows debugging tools are part of Windows SDK toolkit. Once you installed Windows debugging tools, you need to open Global Flags. Below is an example of global flag tool. Click Start – All Programs – Windows kit – Global flags. Global Flags (X86) corresponds to 32 bit process monitoring. Global Flags (X64) corresponds to 64 bit process monitoring. In this example, I am going to monitor MS Word 32 bit application. Click Silent Process Exit – Image: (TAB to refresh): winword.exe – hit TAB key to enable other option – Check “ Enable Silent process Exit monitoring. Click Apply and Ok. ...
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Windows 10 start button is unresponsive

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Some users face a weird issue in Windows 10, when they press Windows key on the keyboard or Click on Windows Icon, they do not get application list. The Windows button is stuck or unresponsive. To solve this problem we can try many fixes, however, this issue is normally related to the user profile. If we login to the same windows machine using another user, we will be able to access Start menu. This happens on domain machines, however, it may happen on local windows 10 system.To resolve this issue, we can force windows to create a new profile. First, take a copy of affected user profile and keep it to secure location. Follow below steps. 1)       Log in to the same computer using Administrator user à Open C Drive à Users à Copy the user folder who have a problem and paste it to another location. 2)       Click Start à Run à Control and press Enter to open Control panel. 3)       Click o...
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Unable to print on USB connected printer

If you are unable to print on printer which is connected to Laptop/Desktop using USB cable. To troubleshoot and isolate the issue, follow below steps. 1) Hardware test: First, try to print a test page from the printer itself or if the printer is All in One device then try to make a copy. If you are able to print the test page from the printer that means printer, the hardware is fine. 2) restart the printer spooler service: Click on Start – Run – Services.msc and press Enter to open Services console. Right click on Print Spooler – Click Restart. Try printing. If you are still unable to print then follow below steps to check whether printer is using correct USB port. 3) Click Start – Run – Control and press enter to open Control panel. You can press Windows + R key to open Run command and Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 10. Click on Devices and Printers. Right Click on printer – Click on properties – Click on Ports tab. Check whether the DOT4 port is...
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Unable to bring CSV volume online on Windows cluster

Sometimes you face weird issue with CSV volume on windows servers; you are unable to bring it online. This can happen on Windows 2008 R2, 2012, 2012 R2 or 2016 cluster servers. You can follow below steps to isolate the issue.    1)       Open Disk Management on Server and check whether you are able to see the provisioned storage volume. If you are unable to see it then please check the zoning on SAN storage or ISCSI configuration and make sure the configuration is correct. If you are not the storage admin then contact the storage admin to check the problem. If you still experience the same problem then follow below steps.    2)       Restart the cluster server one by one; it will help the cluster to properly initialize. It should come online now.    3)       Check and make sure that proper AV exclusion is configured on all servers, you can follow below article from Micr...
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The System could not log you on. The revocation status of the smart card certificate used for authentication could not be determined

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OS: Windows 7, Windows 10 Server OS: Windows 2003, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2016 Condition: Error message when we use smart to log in on a domain computer. Cause:  This happens when Certificate Authority (CA) service stopped and CA is unable to publish the CRL (certificate revocation list) and revocation list is expired. Solution : Log in to CA server using CA admin user. Click Start à Run à Services.msc and press Enter to open services console. Check “Active Directory Certificate services”, if the service is stopped, then Right Click à Click on Start. Wait for some time, CA should publish the new CRL. If you want to force the CRL publication then follow below steps. Click Start à Run à Control and Press Enter to open Control Panel. Double Click Administrative tools à Double Click on Certificate Authority. Right Click on Revoked Certificates à All Tasks à Publish Now ask the user to restart their cl...
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How to get Hyper-v machines replication status when hyper v replica is enabled

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When we enable the Hyper V replica on Windows 2012, 2012 R or 2016 Hyper V servers, to get the details about the hyper-v machine replication is easy from PowerShell as compared to Hyper V console. You can use below command from PowerShell to get the details. Run PowerShell as admin. Run below command Get-VMReplication It will show the details the following details by default. Name, State, Health, Mode, Frequency, Primary Server, ReplicaServer, Replication port, Auth Type and relationship. We can use the same command with pipe fl * to get the complete details. Get-VMReplication | fl * The Same command can run from a remote machine using –Computername parameter. Get-VMReplication –Computername “Severname or IP” .
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How to find logon user name on domain computer using power shell command

To find out which user is logged on to a domain computer, we can use one line power shell command. Open PowerShell on Domain Controller or Management PC. Click Start – Search – Windows PowerShell. Right Click on PowerShell and Click on run as administrator. Type below command to get the logged on username. Get-WmiObject –ComputerName “Computername” –Class Win32_ComputerSystem | Select-Object UserName Example: Get-WmiObject –ComputerName testmachine –Class Win32_ComputerSystem | Select-Object UserName You will get the below output. UserName TEST/John.Smith
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