Psmay at 00:08, 9 March 2016

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This page relates to information about Microsoft Windows in its many hideous forms.

==Kill a service that is stuck on "Starting"==

If you don't know the '''service name''' of the service, it can be found by right-clicking in the Services list and opening Properties; it's the first thing in the General tab.

Open cmd.

Find the PID of the task being run by the service:

sc queryex ''SERVICENAME''

Terminate with extreme prejudice:

taskkill /f /pid ''PIDNUMBER''

Optionally, try starting it again:

net start ''SERVICENAME''

==Artificially add WxH to the possible display resolutions==

The following commands, run as administrator, adds 1920x1080 as the default resolution of the current display adapter. Restart may be required. Useful for serving VNC from VirtualBox.

<syntaxhighlight lang=winbatch>
@echo off
REM Cribbed from https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsdesktop/en-US/3bab12c3-b323-42f1-aee0-107b8ea1da64/windows-7-change-display-resolution-from-a-service?forum=windowsgeneraldevelopmentissues
FOR /F "TOKENS=2 delims={}" %%a in ('"REG QUERY HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Video /s /f VolatileSettings"') do set VIDEOCARD=%%a
echo Got video card {%VIDEOCARD%}
echo Setting HKLM
REG ADD HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Video\{%VIDEOCARD%}\0000 /v DefaultSettings.XResolution /t REG_DWORD /d 1920 /f
REG ADD HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Video\{%VIDEOCARD%}\0000 /v DefaultSettings.YResolution /t REG_DWORD /d 1080 /f
echo Setting HKCC
REG ADD HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\VIDEO\{%VIDEOCARD%}\0000 /v DefaultSettings.XResolution /t REG_DWORD /d 1920 /f
REG ADD HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\VIDEO\{%VIDEOCARD%}\0000 /v DefaultSettings.YResolution /t REG_DWORD /d 1080 /f
echo Done
</syntaxhighlight>
==See also==

* [[Cygwin]], a POSIX layer on Windows that provides a cheat for unported unix apps.
* [[Overhaul]], a list of reminders concerning what to do with a fresh install of any OS.

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