Monday, March 30, 2009

NTOSKernel.exe file is missing

Here is the complete procedure for this.
1) Take out the crashed windows XP machine hard disk
2) Make it secondary hard disk in your another Windows XP machine.
3) Copy ntoskernel.exe file in secondry harddisk rootdrive:\windows\system32 folder from your rootdrive:\windows\system32 folder.
4) Remove secondary hard disk and attach it in its original machine.
5) Try to boot your computer now. It should get booted without any issue.


Multiple IP on single LAN card

Multiple IP on single LAN card

Yesterday I was taking an interview and I asked a simple question that how many IPs can be there on a single lan card and I was amazed because that guy answered me only one. In fact he was very good in network and hardware knowledge but then also he was not knowing this answer so I decide to right it on my blog that how many IP can be there on one LAN card and how to do that in windows machine.

On a single LAN card we can give 1024 IP yes 1024 IP it’s a different thing that we are not going to do it ever in normal case. What about limitation of Windows machine? In fact I also do not know about windows Maximum IP limitation but I have tested it with 32 IP on a windows Vista machine and it worked fine for all 32 IP on that machine.




Ok now let’s see how we can give more than one IP on a single machine

First open properties of your lan card select Internet protocol version and then click on properties button.

It will open you another window where you give your single IP. For providing one more additional IP what you need to do is just click on the advanced button and it will open one more window is advanced TCP/IP settings.

Here click on add and it will give one more prompt windows with heading TCP/IP address. In this window you can give additional IP and subnet mask ID.

You can give as much IP as you need to give by the same way.

Ok we gave multiple IP but what about the multiple Default gateways.

So for giving additional default gateways go to advanced TCP/IP setting again and this time click on the add button of Default gateways option

it will open a window named TCP/IP gateways address just give you default gateways address here and click on add you are done with this.

Needless to say you can give multiple default gateway in the same way.

OK now we are done with IP and gateways what about multiple DNS address on a single LAN card.

By default you can give 2 DNS address without any additional click but what if you need to give more than 2 DNS address then what to do?

Answer is simple just go to TCP/IP settings window again and click on DNS tabthan click on Add button.
It will open a TCP/IP DNS server window
just give your DNS server IP here and here you are done with this also.
Here you can prioritise your DNS server IP as per your requirement by appending them
Do contact me if you get any problem
I hope it was useful for you and you liked it

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Complete backup solution single tool
Posted by AP at 2:54 PM

Complete backup solution by a single tool

I gave simple backup script in my previous post that could copy the data at backup location and it could zip it and rename it with current date but what if you want to have an incremental data backup or what if you want to copy something on your ftp server religiously for keeping something more secured. This time I am here with a solution that can not only backup or upload data but can do many other tasks also.

This is simple light weight software that can do Backup, Restore of backup, FTP Mirroring, uploading data on FTP, Download and copy the data from local computer as well as from network too. You can decide the time and priority for any task and you can schedule it.

The best thing with this tool is that you can back up the data not only on local machine but also on ftp as well as on DVD also.

If you need it you can download if from here for free.

I am using a downloaded version and I have no issue in using it.

I hope it was useful for you

Mails older than 7 days are not appearing in MS outlook Inbox

a simple function and setting of MS outlook and we can simply change it by a single click. For re-display those mails. went to menu->view->current view and selected messages. Earlier it was selected as only last seven days.


Difference Between Windows 2000 and 2003 Server (For Interview)

1- When installing terminal services for win2000 u r prompted to select application server functions or administrative functions sets can be installed sequently on one server but it performs only one function at one time. But in 2003 still distinguishes between application and administrative services but installation and management are now consolidated.

2- In Win 2000 server we can apply 620 group policies but in 2003 we can apply nearly 720 so Win2003 server is more secure than win 2000 server.

3- In 2000 we cannot rename domain whereas in 2003 we can rename Domain.

4- In 2000 it supports of 8 processors and 64 GB RAM (In 2000 Advance Server) whereas in 2003 supports up to 64 processors and max of 512GB RAM.



5- Win 2000 Supports IIS 5.0 and 2003 Supports IIS6.0

6- Win 2000 doesn’t support Dot net whereas 2003 Supports Microsoft .NET 2.0

7- Win 2000 has Server and Advance Server editions whereas 2003 has Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter and Web server Editions.

8- Win 2000 doesn’t have any 64 bit server operating system whereas 2003 has 64 bit server operating systems (Windows Server 2003 X64 Std and Enterprise Edition)

9- Win 2000 has basic concept of DFS (Distributed File systems) with defined roots whereas Win 2003 has Enhanced DFS support with multiple roots.

10- In 2000 there is complexity in administering Complex networks whereas 2003 is easy administration in all & Complex networks.

11- In 2000 we can create 1 million users and in 2003 we can create 1 billion users.

12- In 2003 we have concept of Volume shadow copy service which is used to create hard disk snap shot which is used in Disaster recovery and 2000 doesn’t have this service.

13- In 2000 we don’t have end user policy management, whereas in 2003 we have a End user policy management which is done in GPMC (Group policy management console).

14- In 2000 we have cross domain trust relation ship and 2003 we have Cross forest trust elationship.

15- Win 2000 Supports 4-node clustering and 2003 supports 8-node clustering.

16- Win 2003 has High HCL Support (Hardware Compatibility List) issued by Microsoft.

17- Code name of 2000 is Win NT 5.0 and Code name of 2003 is Win NT 5.1

18-Win 2003 has service called ADFS (Active Directory Federation Services) which is used to communicate between branches with safe authentication.

19- In 2003 their is improved storage management using service File Server Resource Manager (FSRM).

20- Win 2003 has service called Windows Share point Services (It is an integrated portfolio of collaboration and communication services designed to connect people, information, processes, and systems both within and beyond the organizational firewall).

21- Win 2003 has Improved Print management compared to 2000 server.

22- Win 2003 has telnet sessions available.

23- Win 2000 supports IPV4 whereas 2003 supports IPV4 and IPV6

Exchange server 2007 online backup in windows server 2008

I installed MS Exchange server 2007 on a windows server 2008 environment and combination of both worked pretty good. But as a non written rule every good thing holds a bad thing in it. So what this combination of Windows server 2008 and Exchange server 2007 does.

In Windows server 2008 it’s not possible to take online backup of Exchange server 2007 because windows server 2008 doesn’t support online backup of exchange server 2007.

I was felling lot of pain because of this online backup unavailability because it generates lot of logs that make my server’s hard disk full and it stops my exchange server to work. For Deleting log my friend created a utility that could delete all the logs easily on daily basis. You can get more detail for this utility from here or you can it discuss about it here.

We created that utility but I was not happy with that so I looked for some other solution and I found it.

I saw that in windows vista we do not have the hyper terminal but we can use that by copying the necessary file from XP. I tried the same thing for windows server 2008 also and looked for Windows NT backup files and that worked. For more about hyperterminal in vista visit my previous post here

Exchange server 2007 work on windows server 2003 so Windows NT backup can take the online backup of exchange server 2007. When you run windows NTbackup.exe in windows server 2008 it render all the information of exchange server 2007 and it can take online backup of exchange server 2007 in windows server 2008. Its backup is as simple as you used to do in windows server 2003.

Only thing that we need to take as precaution is that for a 64 bit OS we should use a 64 bit server 2003 file and for a 32 bit OS we should use 32 bit server 2003 files.

If you have any problem in using ntbackup utility in windows server 2008 you can discus that on my website www.techraga.com forum here.

For making your life easy I extracted the files of NT backup and uploaded it. you can download it from here with your respected version.

For 64Bit version of windows server download from here

For 32 bit version of windows server download it from here

Password for both the zip file is www.techraga.com

Windows® Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools are a set of tools to help administrators streamline management tasks

The Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools are a set of tools to help administrators streamline management tasks such as troubleshooting operating system issues, managing Active Directory®, configuring networking and security features, and automating application deployment. The following tools are provided:



Acctinfo.dll :( documented in Readme.htm)
Adlb.exe : Active Directory Load Balancing Tool
Admx.msi : ADM File Parser
Atmarp.exe : Windows ATM ARP Server Information Tool
Atmlane.exe : Windows ATM LAN Emulation Client Information
Autoexnt.exe : AutoExNT Service
Cdburn.exe : ISO CD-ROM Burner Tool
Checkrepl.vbs : Check Replication
Chklnks.exe : Link Check Wizard
Chknic.exe : Network Interface Card Compliance Tool for Network Load Balancing
Cleanspl.exe : Spooler Cleaner
Clearmem.exe : Clear Memory
Clusdiag.msi : Cluster Diagnostics and Verification Tool
Clusfileport.dll : Cluster Print File Port
Clusterrecovery.exe : Server Cluster Recovery Utility
Cmdhere.inf : Command Here
Cmgetcer.dll : Connection Manager Certificate Deployment Tool
Compress.exe : Compress Files
Confdisk.exe : Disk Configuration Tool
Consume.exe : Memory Consumers Tool
Creatfil.exe : Create File
Csccmd.exe : Client-Side Caching Command-Line Options
Custreasonedit.exe : Custom Reason Editor (documented in Readme.htm)
Delprof.exe : User Profile Deletion Utility
Dh.exe : Display Heap
Diskraid.exe : RAID Configuration Tool
Diskuse.exe : User Disk Usage Tool
Dnsdiag.exe : SMTP DNS Diagnostic Tool (documented in Readme.htm)
Dumpfsmos.cmd : Dump FSMO Roles
Dvdburn.exe : ISO DVD Burner Tool
Empty.exe : Free Working Set Tool
Eventcombmt.exe : Check Replication
Fcopy.exe : File Copy Utility for Message Queuing
Frsflags.vbs : For Flags
Getcm.exe : Connection Manager Profile Update
Gpmonitor.exe : Group Policy Monitor
Gpotool.exe : Group Policy Objects
Hlscan.exe : Hard Link Display Tool
Ifilttst.exe : IFilter Test Suite
Ifmember.exe : User Membership Tool
Inetesc.adm : Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration
Iniman.exe : Initialization Files Manipulation Tool
Instcm.exe : Install Connection Manager Profile
Instsrv.exe : Service Installer
Intfiltr.exe : Interrupt Affinity Tool
Kerbtray.exe : Kerberos Tray
Kernrate.exe : Kernel Profiling Tool
Klist.exe : Kerberos List
Krt.exe : Certification Authority Key Recovery
Lbridge.cmd : L-Bridge
Linkd.exe : for link
Linkspeed.exe : Link Speed
List.exe : List Text File Tool
Lockoutstatus.exe : Account Lockout Status (documented in Readme.htm)
Logtime.exe : For log time
Lsreport.exe : Terminal Services Licensing Reporter
Lsview.exe : Terminal Services License Server Viewer
Mcast.exe : Multicast Packet Tool
Memmonitor.exe : Memory Monitor
Memtriage.exe : Resource Leak Triage Tool
Mibcc.exe : SNMP MIB Compiler
Moveuser.exe : Move Users
Mscep.dll : Certificate Services Add-on for Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol
Nlsinfo.exe : Locale Information Tool
Now.exe : STDOUT Current Date and Time
Ntimer.exe : Windows Program Timer
Ntrights.exe : for NT rights
Oh.exe : Open Handles
Oleview.exe : OLE/COM Object Viewer
Pathman.exe : Path Manager
Permcopy.exe : Share Permissions Copy
Perms.exe : User File Permissions Tool
Pfmon.exe : Page Fault Monitor
Pkiview.msc : PKI Health Tool
Pmon.exe : Process Resource Monitor
Printdriverinfo.exe : Drivers Source
Prnadmin.dll : Printer Administration Objects
Qgrep.exe :
Qtcp.exe : QoS Time Stamp
Queryad.vbs : Query Active Directory
Rassrvmon.exe : RAS Server Monitor
Rcontrolad.exe : Active Directory Remote Control Add-On
Regini.exe : Registry Change by Script
Regview.exe : (documented in Readme.htm)
Remapkey.exe : Remap Windows Keyboard Layout
Robocopy.exe : Robust File Copy Utility
Rpccfg.exe : RPC Configuration Tool
Rpcdump.exe : RPC Dump
Rpcping.exe : RPC Ping
RPing : RPC Connectivity Verification Tool
Rqc.exe : Remote Access Quarantine Client
Rqs.exe : Remote Access Quarantine Agent
Setprinter.exe : Spooler Configuration Tool
Showacls.exe : For show Clear Screen
Showperf.exe : Performance Data Block Dump Utility
Showpriv.exe : Show Privilege
Sleep.exe : Batch File Wait
Sonar.exe : FRS Status Viewer
Splinfo.exe : Print Spooler Information
Srvany.exe : Applications as Services Utility
Srvcheck.exe : Server Share Check
Srvinfo.exe : Remote Server Information
Srvmgr.exe : Server Manager
Ssdformat.exe : System State Data Formatter
Subinacl.exe :
Tail.exe :
Tcmon.exe : Traffic Control Monitor
Timeit.exe : (documented in Readme.htm)
Timezone.exe : Daylight Saving Time Update Utility
Tsctst.exe : Terminal Server Client License Dump Tool
Tsscalling.exe : Terminal Services Scalability Planning Tools
Uddicatschemeeditor.exe : UDDI Services Categorization Scheme Editor
Uddiconfig.exe : UDDI Services Command-line Configuration Utility
Uddidataexport.exe : UDDI Data Export Wizard
Usrmgr.exe : User Manager for Domains
Vadump.exe : Virtual Address Dump
Vfi.exe : Visual File Information
Volperf.exe : Shadow Copy Performance Counters
Volrest.exe : Shadow Copies for Shared Folders Restore Tool
Vrfydsk.exe : Verify Disk
Winexit.scr : Windows Exit Screen Saver
Winhttpcertcfg.exe : WinHTTP Certificate Configuration Tool
Winhttptracecfg.exe : WinHTTP Tracing Facility Configuration Tool
Winpolicies.exe : Policy Spy
Wins.dll : WINS Replication Network Monitor Parser
Wlbs_hb.dll & Wlbs_rc.dll : Windows Load Balancing Server Network Monitor Parsers

Explorer has stopped working getting this message again and again in vista

1) First restart your computer while its rebooting continuously keep pressing F7.
2) After few seconds you will get a black screen in which you will see different option. Choose the safe mode by your arrow key and press enter.
3) It will boot your computer in safe mode, in safe mode also you may have the problem of the explorer has stopped working but you can simply use your computer.
4) Now go to start->all program->accessories->system tools->system restore and click on system restore.



5) It will give you a screen as bellow.

6) Click on next and you will get screen as bellow. If there is not multiple date please select show the restore point older than 5 days and you will get all the restore point.

7) Select the date when your system was working fine and click on next it will start the restoration process of your computer and after few minute it will restart.
8) Once it’s restarted it should work fine.


Please drop a comment if you find any problem in this.

Hope it was useful for you