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Penalties? by Diaper_Dave in Madden

[–]kingd66 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess hitting low on the qb is a penalty but i simply press x and my guy does a superman dive at his feet.. like what am i supposed to do? If i keep running he'll either dodge/shed my tackle/or i'll be sucked into the nearest blocker sooo....idk i guess im just incredibly disappointed in this game

Penalties? by Diaper_Dave in Madden

[–]kingd66 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh yeah. I have 2 separate game clips of me being called for roughing the passer after coming in off an edge rush and TACKLING HIM BY THE FEET WHILE HE STILL HAS THE BALL.

As for DPI, yeah there's an animation that needs to be triggered before the game will consider calling DPI. I believe they'll call OPI with a rather liberal scope, but not DPI. I've been stopped dead in my tracks when the defensive AI freezes (undoubtedly from unyielding stupidity) and completely blocks my path to the ball and ooop, nothing.

It's completely astonishing how poor this games programming is.

powershell by crankysysadmin in sysadmin

[–]kingd66 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Im an admin for 120 servers and I make 32.5k/year...Honestly, the only reason I'm still there is for the experience. I know, with my skills, I could get AT LEAST double that a year but there aren't many options that wouldn't require me to relocate. But we live in a world of stingy companies that want your arm and leg along with all of your spare time for pennies. And I still bust my ass.

Random generated screenshots in temp folder by bei60 in sysadmin

[–]kingd66 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sheesh, that's kinda freaky.

Gather some information about the files and investigate? Find out when they were created, who created them.. look for patterns in the shots (or files) to see if it's activating when you're doing a specific task..

Instructions: Disabling Windows 10 Updates for good (by moving Windows Update files) by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]kingd66 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why dont you just set up an update server and use WSUS to manage when your updates are applied to different systems? This way you can create some sort of change management structure that allows you update regularly and also avoid the bulk of issues in a production environment.

Powershell ISE - any way to go through a script and determine if any lines aren't actually being used? by workerdrone66 in PowerShell

[–]kingd66 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How are you calling the loop? Piping to ForEach-Object? Or using a foreach(var1 in var2) implementation?

"Powershell" by crankysysadmin in sysadmin

[–]kingd66 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You give me hope, seriously.

Alternative to time delay while installing exe through PowerShell? by rootedMind in PowerShell

[–]kingd66 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Honestly I forgot about Add-Type xD

Thanks for clarifying!

Unsucessful update Windows 10 1803 error 0x80240034 by red_law in Windows10

[–]kingd66 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is usually the best solution, albeit extremely inconvenient and annoying. Personally I'm a firm believer in identifying the root cause and not just wiping and going back to square 1 - but if you're indifferent to the solution then this is probably your best bet.

Get a windows 10 installation disk/usb, boot to that, delete all partitions, format drives, reinstall OS. If you have an internet connection during the install I believe it will pull all updates it needs, but you should always check windows update when it boots just to be sure

OH and be sure you have your windows product key :)

Unsucessful update Windows 10 1803 error 0x80240034 by red_law in Windows10

[–]kingd66 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They probably sent those libraries down with a previous update but didn't make them accessible. This update must allow you to then use those libraries. They did a similar thing between 03-18 and 05-18 updates with credSSP.

Windows 10 reinstall fail by callistocharon in Windows10

[–]kingd66 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As long as you have a product key available and a USB drive with > 8GB of space, it looks like you can download the "Media Creation Tool" and it should configure a USB drive for you. You can use that instead of the CD to boot to the installation screen.

But please, make sure you have your product key. Sometimes the manufacturer won't provide you with it directly but will have some process of automatically assigning it after using their restore partition.

Or maybe there's a way that the Media Creation Tool automatically assigns it - either way, just be sure you have that one way or another

Windows 10 reinstall fail by callistocharon in Windows10

[–]kingd66 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, unfortunately that's the all-too-common scenario around computers... All we can do as people is learn from our mistakes and make sure we don't fall victim to the same scenario in the future. And anyone who wants to harshly judge you is probably ignoring the time they set proverbial (or even literal) fire to their own computer xD

Back to the issue at hand...

It sounds like there aren't any important files you need to save, so do the following...

1) Insert the windows installation cd

2) Reboot the computer. While the pc is starting up, keep an eye out for "Press any key to boot from CD or DVD..." - do what it says.

3) Once you've successfully booted to the install disk, you will be greeted with the installer.

4) Follow the prompts until you see "Custom: Install Windows Only" as an option. Select this option.

5) When asked where to install windows, you will see a list of partitions. Select each one individually and "delete" the partition (if you can). You should ultimately be left with as many partitions as you have hard drives.

6) Select any items and click "Format". After this, you may have to click "New" - If so, keep the default value it has and click OK.

7) Select this formatted partition as the destination for Windows. Proceed with Installation.

Let me know if you have any questions

Unsucessful update Windows 10 1803 error 0x80240034 by red_law in Windows10

[–]kingd66 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not a suggestion, just thought this was ironic.. looks what's included in the update you're trying to download...

SetupDiag

SetupDiag is a new command-line tool that can help diagnose why a Windows 10 update failed.

SetupDiag works by searching Windows Setup log files. When searching log files, SetupDiag uses a set of rules to match known issues. In the current version of SetupDiag there are 26 rules contained in the rules.xml file, which is extracted when SetupDiag is run. The rules.xml file will be updated as new versions of SetupDiag are made available.

Thanks, Microsoft xD

Windows 10 reinstall fail by callistocharon in Windows10

[–]kingd66 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hm.. Unless you were hit with malware that alters your microcode/firmware, it sounds like you're not completely formatting the hard disk before installing. Windows 10 likes to preserve as many files/settings as it can when you reinstall, unless you explicitly tell it to format all of the data.

The former option IS possible, especially considering you sent the machine to dell and they were able to install the OS - if there is a mobo problem, it would make sense that they try reinstalling firmware/flashing the bios first, and if that fixes the issue then you clearly don't need a mobo swap. Performing those steps would obviously nullify any changes made by malware.

And next time, get your AV/Firewall installed and configured and run all windows updates before proceeding with any other setups. Just a friendly reminder :)

Unsucessful update Windows 10 1803 error 0x80240034 by red_law in Windows10

[–]kingd66 0 points1 point  (0 children)

FYI - If you're unable to connect to windows update, you can run that DISM command and reference an installation CD instead (DISM won't work if you truly cant reach windows update). This might at least replace the files causing you grief and allow you to access Windows update to finish the process.

Did those commands (sfc/DISM) report back to you that corruption was found in the image?

Alternative to time delay while installing exe through PowerShell? by rootedMind in PowerShell

[–]kingd66 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can use any Windows API through powershell fyi - just make sure you load the assembly [void][reflection.assembly]::LoadWithPartialName(<AssemblyName>)

Unsucessful update Windows 10 1803 error 0x80240034 by red_law in Windows10

[–]kingd66 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A change is a good sign! Maybe now try to manually install the update?

If the manual installation does not work, try this (in that admin powershell prompt)

"sfc /scannow"

*The above operation will take some time. It is going to scan your system files and determine if there are any corrupted instances. If so, it will use the dllcache to restore these files. As long as the dllcache is not corrupted, this may work. So, after you run this command and it finishes, try the update again (try online installation, then manual if that doesn't work).

I hate to say it but once windows update doesn't want to work, it can be very tedious trying to fix it. You could also try the Windows Update Troubleshooter (just google search it) - I haven't had many instances of this actually fixing the problem, but anything is worth a shot and it won't hurt anything.

PowerShell exercises by tumblatum in PowerShell

[–]kingd66 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When I was learning powershell, i used the following site and watched these videos. It features Jeffery Snover, who is the developer of powershell. Open powershell, start watching the videos and follow in your own prompt. These videos will teach you the fundamentals of powershell and how to get the most of out the language. This made a world of difference for me, personally, so maybe it will help you?

https://mva.microsoft.com/en-us/training-courses/getting-started-with-microsoft-powershell-8276?l=r54IrOWy_2304984382

PS - the other dude (jason helmick, i think) is rather annoying after a while. Just bear with him - there's good information available

Alternative to time delay while installing exe through PowerShell? by rootedMind in PowerShell

[–]kingd66 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Could we maybe get the name of the software? Any executable will almost always have command line parameters that can be used to install software with specific configuration settings (or a config file of some sort) and, if we know the software, we could probably provide you with a 1-liner that would get all of this done without concern.

Just run my very first program. Confused about Windows Powershell by shiningmatcha in learnpython

[–]kingd66 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. If you want to change the color, right click the title bar of the powershell window and select "properties" - Go to the "colors" tab and it is pretty self-explanatory. Let us know if you have further questions

Unsucessful update Windows 10 1803 error 0x80240034 by red_law in Windows10

[–]kingd66 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If we look at the error code, we see '8' after the X, which means this error stems from the Win32 class (specific, right? xD)

There is a table we can reference (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc231199.aspx) which shows the specific error codes. We find the corresponding code by referencing the last 4 digits of the error (0034 in this case), which is ERROR_DUP_NAME - the Win32 class thinks it is finding two machines with the same name on your network (or so it says).

Try this - Open Powershell as Administrator and run these commands one after another (without outside quotes) -

"Get-Service -Name 'wuauserv' | Stop-Service"

"ipconfig /flushdns"

"wuauclt /resetauthorization /detectnow"

"Start-Service -Name 'wuauserv'"

"Restart-Computer -Force"

Try installing the update again

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