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Change Product key in MS Office

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Change-your-Office-product-key-d78cf8f7-239e-4649-b726-3a8d2ceb8c81

 

  1. Open elevated Command Prompt
  2. Find last five characters of current Key –
    cscript “C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office16\OSPP.VBS” /dstatus
  3. Remove current key –
    cscript “C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office16\OSPP.VBS” /unpkey:XXXXX
  4. Enter new key –
    cscript “C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office16\OSPP.VBS” /inpkey:XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX

 

 

 

Driver update & Diagnostics for different computer manufacturers

Acer

Acer Care Center – Go to  https://www.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/drivers and find your computer. Then in the Application category you should find Acer Care Center. If not enter a different computer.

Dell

Dell Command Update

Dell Command Update replaces DCSU and is a part of the Dell Client Command Suite. It provides a 2-click solution for getting all the latest drivers, firmware, and BIOS updates for your OptiPlex, Venue Pro Tablet, Precision, XPS Notebook and Latitude models that are running the following Windows operating systems: Windows 7,Windows 8, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10

https://www.dell.com/support/article/us/en/04/sln311129/dell-command-update?lang=en

Dell Support Assistant

This is much better than the DELL UPDATE program below

https://www.dell.com/support/contents/us/en/04/article/product-support/self-support-knowledgebase/software-and-downloads/supportassist

Dell Update

https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-ag/drivers/driversdetails?driverid=nhkd3&oscode=w2021&productcode=inspiron-16-5625-laptop

This package provides the Dell Update Application and is supported on Inspiron, Vostro, XPS and Alienware systems running Windows 7, Windows 8.1, and Windows 10.

Lenovo

Drivershttps://support.lenovo.com/ec/th/solutions/ht003029

Lenovo System Update is supported on the following systems:

    • Lenovo 3000 C100, C200, N100, N200, V100, V200
    • Lenovo 3000 J100, J105, J110, J115, J200, J200p, J205, S200, S200p, S205
    • All ThinkPad
    • All ThinkCentre
    • All ThinkStation
    • Lenovo V/B/K/E Series

Diagnostics

https://pcsupport.lenovo.com/us/en/solutions/downloads

HP

HP Support Assitant

https://support.hp.com/us-en/help/hp-support-assistant

Toshiba

Service Station

https://support.toshiba.com/support/viewContentDetail?contentId=4015983

Backup Restore NTFS Security & Share Permissions

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/askds/2008/11/24/how-to-back-up-and-restore-ntfs-and-share-permissions/

Backup and Restore of Share Permissions

To backup share permissions, export the Shares registry key.

  1. Open Regedit to the following location:
    HKLMSYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesLanmanServerShares
  2. Right-click the Shares registry key and select Export. Give it a file name such as shareperms.reg

When you want to restore the permissions, double-click shareperms.reg to import it back into the registry.

Use the Reg tool to backup the registry key from the command line:

reg export HKLMSYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesLanmanServerShares shareperms.reg

If you need to restore it at some point, just run:

reg import shareperms.reg

Backup and Restore of NTFS Permissions

 

Use this command to backup NTFS permissions:

icacls d:data /save ntfsperms.txt /t /c

The /T switch allows it to get subfolder permissions too. The /C switch allows it to continue even if errors are encountered (although errors will still be displayed).

Use this command to restore them:

icacls d: /restore ntfsperms.txt

 

Note that in the command to save the permissions, I specified the target folder D:Data, but when I restored them, I specified just D: as the target. Icacls is a little funky like that, and here’s why.

If you open the text file with the exported permissions (ntfsperms.txt in the above example), you’ll see that Icacls uses relative paths (in bold below). Underneath the relative paths are the permissions for the folders in Security Descriptor Definition Language (SDDL) format.

data
D:AI(A;ID;FA;;;BA)(A;OICIIOID;GA;;;BA)(A;ID;FA;;;SY)(A;OICIIOID;GA;;;SY)(A;OICIID;0x1200a9;;;BU)(A;ID;0x1301bf;;;AU)(A;OICIIOID;SDGXGWGR;;;AU)
datafolder1
D:AI(A;ID;FA;;;BA)(A;OICIIOID;GA;;;BA)(A;ID;FA;;;SY)(A;OICIIOID;GA;;;SY)(A;OICIID;0x1200a9;;;BU)(A;ID;0x1301bf;;;AU)(A;OICIIOID;SDGXGWGR;;;AU)
datafolder2
D:AI(A;ID;FA;;;BA)(A;OICIIOID;GA;;;BA)(A;ID;FA;;;SY)(A;OICIIOID;GA;;;SY)(A;OICIID;0x1200a9;;;BU)(A;ID;0x1301bf;;;AU)(A;OICIIOID;SDGXGWGR;;;AU)

Had I specified D:Data in the command to restore the permissions, it would have failed looking for a D:DataData folder:

D:>icacls d:data /restore perms.txt
d:datadata: The system cannot find the file specified.
Successfully processed 0 files; Failed processing 1 files

You might think specifying D: as the target in the restore command may somehow mess up the permissions on other folders at that level, but as you can see from the ntfsperms.txt output file, it only has information about the Data folder and subfolders, so that is all it will change.