How do I generate a list of windows patches and the date they were installed on a windows 2000 server?

Option 1 Get psinfo from http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897550.aspx Run psinfo -h to get the list of hotfixes Option 2 Another method that doesn’t require 3rd party software using wmic; just type: wmic qfe from the command line. The default output gives really long lines, so you might be better off redirecting to a file and viewing it … Read more

Remote Desktop Session Black after Minimize

Solved the problem of RDP not coming back from the minimised position. It is because when minimised RDP may not redraw the gui. The following registry change seems to have resolved the issue (XP SP3 32k). HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Terminal Server Client\ Created a new DWORD value and named it RemoteDesktop_SuppressWhenMinimized. Specified 2 as the value data.