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For years, users have wondered why on earth Microsoft wouldn’t make the taskbar customizable and usable across multiple monitors. The release of Windows 8 won’t tell us why it took so long, but at least we’ll get some new features. Here’s a quick look for those that haven’t already seen them. The new Taskbar in Windows 8 finally spans multiple monitors, and can be customized so that the taskbar buttons on each monitor are the buttons for windows open on that monitor. You can also make both taskbars show all windows if you choose. To access the new settings, head into Taskbar Properties by right-clicking on the Taskbar and choosing Properties. Once there, you’ll see the “Multiple displays” section at the bottom of the dialog, where you can quickly check the box to enable or disable showing the taskbar across displays. The “Show taskbar buttons on” drop-down lets you choose where the buttons appear. For example, the screenshot at the beginning of this article was from t...

netstat -a -n -o | find "123456"

J ust follow these steps to diagnose and resolve your issue: Get pid that is listening port 80:  netstat -nao | find “:80″ Open task manager, go to processes tab and check “PID” in  Menu/View/Select Columns… , then look for the process using the PID found in last step. If it is a  normal application  or IIS, disable it or uninstall. Some programs (such as Skype) have the option to disable its use of port 80. If it is a  System Process —PID 4—you need to disable the HTTP.sys driver which is started on demand by another service, such as Windows Remote Management or Print Spooler on Windows 7 or 2008. There is two ways to disable it but the first one is safer: Go to device manager, select “show hidden devices” from menu/view, go to “Non-Plug and Play Driver”/HTTP, double click it to disable it (or set it to manual, some services depended on it). Reboot and use  netstat -nao | find “:80″  ...

Hacky (unacceptable) Workaround:  I can get it working again if  I remove NET.TCP from the site's EnabledProtocols  Iisreset  Add NET.TCP back to the site's EnabledProtocols.  The site continues to work until iisreset is issued again. IIS is doing something when I add NET.TCP to the EnabledProtocols that isn't happening when IIS starts when NET.TCP has already been added.  

WCF - Error 500.21 Handler "svc-Integrated" has a bad module "ManagedPipelineHandler" in its module list" If you  see this error you havent installed the prerequistes for ASP.NET 4. Try this Open Visual Studio Command Prompt Type the following:  aspnet_regiis.exe -i Run the command Try your service again...  Happy Face - it should be working :-)   This basically installs the necessary ASP pieces to get your service up and working!

This script will take a full database backup to disk BACKUP DATABASE AdventureWorks2012 TO DISK = 'T:\Backups\AdvWorksData2015.bak' WITH FORMAT; GO Although there are other options available in the backup database command, this one is the simplest. Nothing geeky in the new year post :)

I encountered the situation recently where I needed to find the size of the database log file while doing baseline.  Here is the script, if you remove the WHERE condition you will find the result for all the databases. SELECT  DB_NAME ( database_id )  AS  DatabaseName , Name  AS  Logical_Name , Physical_Name , ( size * 8 )/ 1024 SizeMB FROM  sys.master_files WHERE  DB_NAME ( database_id ) = 'AdventureWorks'-- substitute the name of DB here GO