Good morning AskPerf! Blake here to discuss an internal command line tool called Eventcreate. What exactly is Eventcreate? I’m glad you asked. In a nutshell, Eventcreate is a command line tool that enables an administrator to create a custom event ID...

Hello all. Prabhakar here again, and today I would like to talk about an issue which I recently came across where a user was not able to pull up the detailed description of files on a Windows Server 2008 machine. When the user would right-click a file...

Hello again AskPerf! Blake here to show you a not-so-utilized command line tool called Schtasks. The Schtasks command enables an administrator to create, delete, query, change, run, and end Scheduled Tasks on your local or remote system. For those command...

The Component Services snap-in under Administrative Tools allows you manage the COM+ applications on different computers on your network. This is done by adding the computer to a list which is then saved for the next time you open the application. While...