Windows – Start DOS prompt from Windows Explorer. Start Windows Explorer from DOS prompt

Start DOS prompt from Windows Explorer

DOS prompt (cmd) can be launched from Wondows Explorer directly by typing cmd in the address bar. The result is a DOS prompt located at the same directory as Windows Explorer

Start Windows Explorer from DOS prompt

Windows Explorer can be launched from DOS prompt by typing “start .” at the DOS prompt

DOS prompt output directly to clipboard

The output of a command in DOS prompt can be piped directly to the clipboard, example: dir | clip

Oracle – Direct NFS with a Windows NFS Server

Scenario : Oracle Direct NFS, NFS on Windows Server

you are using Oracle Direct NFS, and the NFS is running on Windows, there is a potential issue with permissions and ownership changes required.

Example

An example of issues with Oracle Direct NFS using datapump with the DATA_PUMP_DIR located on an NFS share server by NFS on Windows:

Estimate in progress using BLOCKS method...
Processing object type SCHEMA_EXPORT/TABLE/TABLE_DATA
Total estimation using BLOCKS method: 2.625 MB
Processing object type SCHEMA_EXPORT/USER
ORA-39126: Worker unexpected fatal error in KUPW$WORKER.CREATE_OBJECT_ROWS [USER:"XYZ"]
ORA-19505: failed to identify file "/u01/ORCL/ORCL_testexp.dp"
ORA-17503: ksfdopn:4 Failed to open file /u01/ORCL/ORCL_testexp.dp
ORA-17500: ODM err:File does not exist
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_SYS_ERROR", line 95
ORA-06512: at "SYS.KUPW$WORKER", line 11014
----- PL/SQL Call Stack -----
  object      line  object
  handle    number  name

Relevant MOS Documents

RMAN Backup Fail to NFS Shares From a Windows Server When DNFS is Enabled (Doc ID 2171297.1)
Datapump Dump File Permission In DNFS Environment (Doc ID 2049012.1)

Solution

Change the value of the following registry key (on the Windows Server providing NFS) to 0 and restart Server for NFS:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\ServerForNfs\CurrentVersion\Exports\0\RestrictChown = 0 (DWORD)

Workaround

You could also disable Direct NFS:
set ORACLE environment.
cd $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/lib/
make -f ins_rdbms.mk dnfs_off

— restart the instance

Windows – svchost 100% cpu on Windows Update (Virtual Machine on Virtual Box)

Solve the svchost 100% cpu issue om Windows 7 SP1

I installed all these:

IE11-Windows6.1-x64-en-us.exe
Windows6.1-KB3020369-x64.msu
Windows6.1-KB3102810-x64.msu
windows6.1-kb3125574-v4-x64_2dafb1d203c8964239af3048b5dd4b1264cd93b9.msu
Windows6.1-KB3179573-x64.msu
windows6.1-kb3197868-x64_b07be176e165c11b9ccbcf03d014b2aef9a514b6.msu
windows6.1-KB976932-X64.exe

After this, the problem still occurred.

Then:
19.12.2016 12:55 30’659’457 Windows6.1-KB3172605-x64.msu
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3172605

July 2016 update rollup for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
and set number of processors to 2