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Your post of an entire email, along with a TON of useless data, was completely unnecessary. I clicked on your profile and saw no other posts other than the one I replied to.

I never said YOU didn't know what you were talking about. I said "I don't think anyone has a clue what you are talking about," because you failed to provide a sufficiently descriptive context for your question. Without that context, your question or problem description makes little sense.

Oh, and the Sys Admin forum is more for server administration questions, like Windows Server and Linux servers.

It's NOT a forum for addressing the CodeProject system administrators on issues with the site. For that, there is the Bugs and Suggestions[^] forum.

Asking questions is a skill
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Google: C# How to debug code
Seriously, go read these articles.
Dave Kreskowiak

it’s ok no hard feelings i just wanted to make sure it reaches the right people related for the issues i was trying to report as contribution, nothing else, the response time is definitely awesome, good job guys and have a nice rest of the week.

where is this setting located

httpclient timeout - Google Search[^]

If the other response doesn't answer your question you will need to add more information to indicate what you mean by "located".

Or more information to indicate why you think you needed to ask the question in the first place.

Is there a program, either third-party or built into Windows that can test the effective bits per second between any two machines on a LAN?

How would I go about something like that?

The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.

Time a file transfer. Do a few of different sizes to see if it is determinate.

"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I

I appear to have seen more related how would I say sites this is Appropriate.

You can use a utility called iPerf - iPerf - The ultimate speed test tool for TCP, UDP and SCTP [^]

To run iPerf as a server on 1 Machine, open a command prompt(Administrator mode), navigate to the directory where you extracted iPerf, and run the following command, this starts iPerf in server mode, waiting for connections from the client machine -

Shell

iperf -s

Now run iPerf as a client on your other LAN machine, open a command prompt, navigate to the directory where you extracted iPerf, and run the following command -

Shell

iperf -c <your-server-IP-address>

This will give you a connection result in bps.

Very cool! Thanks! Java | [Coffee]

The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.

You're welcome. I will take a thumbs up before the coffee. Big Grin | :-D

Wow great news keep me updated

Here's something that's been perplexing me for a while:

My user account on a Windows 10 PC has several mapped drives that access various servers on the LAN. I'm able to use them just fine.

However, when I launch any program "As Admin", the mapped drives are not there, inside the program. It's as if I'm running as a different user when I launch programs as Admin.

But the perplexing part is that my user account is a member of the Adminstrators group.

So why doesn't it launch the programs as me, but with administrative rights?

And if it's not launching the programs as me, then who is it launching them as?

The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.

Interesting question. Seems just as perplexing to me. So I went looking. I think the following answers it?

Mapped drives are not available - Windows Client | Microsoft Learn[^]

OK I see. I was assuming the cause was something other than what it really is. Thanks!

The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.

Perhaps the behavior exhibited is similar to the behavior of a web browser that is either started with administrative rights or is started in the default mode. Both modes, by the way, can be present under control of the same user. But if you'll notice, as an administrative starter, the webbrowser that is opened by "you" will no longer allow any external application to access it's "space". In my experience all administrative web browsers open at the time of an external app requesting use of the default windows browser will throw a brick until all administrative browsers relinquish whatever control they have over a running instance.

Not the same thing? Probably. Just seems like one could say "'Seen one vacuum behavior, 'seen 'em all".

modified 11-Jul-23 13:19pm.

Does anyone know where to find the documentation on grub? There's lots of places out there that give you a little information about how to handle simple tasks, like recreating the GRUB table, etc, but I'm looking for something more detailed.

Keep Calm and Carry On

I take it you have seen GNU GRUB - Documentation[^].

No. My google-fu seems to have completely failed me in this respect. Thank you.

Keep Calm and Carry On

I have to admit it took a little forensic searching; the first link went to a street food venue in Manchester.

And it turns out that there's Grub info files installed on my system too. Blush | :O

Keep Calm and Carry On

Hello,

I've been tasked with implementing Strong Certificate Matching on Enterprise servers. After doing some research I saw that this could cause major authentication issues on Domain Controllers. Does anyone know how this is safely rolled out or has anyone does this in their environment yet? What systems does it affect?

Thanks

I think a kernel mode driver is chewing up all of the memory in my company laptop.

The Task Manager shows no process using an excessive amount of memory, but by the end of the day, all 16 GB of RAM is filled up and the page file is at its max. And no, the total RAM usage of all running user mode processes doesn't add up to 16 GB.

The only thing that fixes it is to restart the system. Signing out and back in doesn't fix it.

If it is a kernel mode driver doing it, how can I track down which one it is?

The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.