The Windows Assessment Tool (WinSAT) is included Microsoft Vista and Windows 7. This tool can perform performance tests including CPU, memory, disk and video. winsat disk -drive c Windows System Assessment Tool > Running: Feature Enumeration '' > Run Time 00:00:00.00 > Running: Storage Assessment '-drive c -seq -read' > Run Time 00:00:05.48 > Running: Storage Assessment '-drive c -ran -read' > Run Time 00:00:06.99 > Running: Storage Assessment '-drive c -scen 2009' > Run Time 00:01:13.

While recklessly installing/testing some new themes I broke my GUI. Nothing seemed to be working right. After rebooting the box I was sitting at a blank screen. A quick check of ps -aux showed Gnome and Xorg running. What gives? Fired up journalctl and saw a bunch of these listed. Yep that looks like a place I might have screwed up. gnome-session[7460]: Window manager warning: Failed to load theme "Adwaita": Failed to find a valid file for theme Adwaita gnome-session[7460]: Window manager warning: Failed to load theme "Simple": Failed to find a valid file for theme Simple gnome-session[7460]: Window manager warning: Failed to load theme "ThinIce": Failed to find a valid file for theme ThinIce gnome-session[7460]: Window manager warning: Failed to load theme "Zukitre": Failed to find a valid file for theme Zukitre gnome-session[7460]: Window manager warning: Failed to load theme "Default": Failed to find a valid file for theme Default gnome-session[7460]: Window manager warning: Failed to load theme "Emacs": Failed to find a valid file for theme Emacs gnome-session[7460]: Window manager warning: Failed to load theme "Redmond": Failed to find a valid file for theme Redmond gnome-session[7460]: Window manager warning: Failed to load theme "Moka": Failed to find a valid file for theme Moka gnome-session[7460]: Window manager warning: Failed to load theme "Numix": Failed to find a valid file for theme Numix gnome-session[7460]: Window manager warning: Failed to load theme "Zukitwo": Failed to find a valid file for theme Zukitwo I quick Google search found a recommendation to reinstall the gnome-themes-standard package.

Every so often I will run into the error where a Windows 2003 server will get stuck logging off a user. The console screen will display the message “Saving your settings”. I ran into this issue while needing to remotely reboot a server. The server in question did not have any kind of remote access card. However, the server was running RAdmin software and I was able to get a console screen open.

There are multiple times where I have been unable to kill a process on Windows 2008 server. Generally the process is running as a domain account. Killing the process failed using an administrative prompt and/or the account the process was started with. The process is owned by the System account. You can use the Sysinternals tool psexec with the -s switch to run as the System account. The -i switch allows the process to interact with the desktop.