Forceful Demotion of a Dead Domain Controller

If one of your domain controllers dies on you, then you cannot gracefully demote it. So, when this happens there are a few things that you need to do to remove it from the domain and cleanup the mess that this failure created.

The first step is to jump on one of your remaining domain controllers that's running Windows 2003 SP1 or newer.

IIS Log Management Script in Powershell

IIS logs on a busy webserver can use up a lot of disk space. I wrote this little powershell script that I schedule to run on all of my web servers. It goes in and deletes out any IIS logs older than 1 year. Then it compresses any IIS logs that are left which are older than 1 day and are not already compressed. You can change the length of time for these to suit your needs by changeing the numbers in the "AddDays(-123)" parts of the script. Just make sure it's a negative number, or else you won't have any logs left.

How to Configure Your Page File to Save Disk Space

Written by Greg Kjono

There are a couple of hidden files that typically use up a lot of disk space, especially in systems that have large amounts of RAM. These are the pagefile.sys and hiberfil.sys. Hiberfil.sys can be deleted if you don't use the hibernation feature. Instructions on how to do that are available at http://nerdsknowbest.blogspot.com/2013/01/how-to-delete-hiberfilsys-on-windows.html.

I don't recommend completely removing the pagefile, especially on desktops and laptops, however. You can configure them to not use so much disk space though. By default they are set to "system managed" and are probably close in size to the amount of memory you have in your PC. Chances are that you aren't actually using most of that space in the page file, and that your computer is just allocating that space in case it needs it in the future.

Error! Windows - No Disk: Exception Processing Message c0000013 Parameters 75a851d8 979a26dc 75a851d8 75a851d8

This is one of those errors that doesn't really give you any information to go on. All you really get is this popup message that say Windows - No Disk: Exception Processing Message c0000013 Parameters 75a851d8 979a26dc 75a851d8 75a851d8.