Category: Windows

How to Find a PDC Emulator

This post will describe the PDC Emulator and way to detect PDC Emulator in your environment.

Step 1: Open PowerShell: Click on Windows button or Search box in your System. Type powershell and Right-click on it. Then Click Run as administrator.

Step 2: Run Command to Find PDC: Type Get-ADDomain | Select-Object -Property PDCEmulator and hit Enter.

You can see the FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name) of the PDC machine. Now you can login to this machine and do your advanced Active Directory related troubleshooting.

Video Tutorial:

List of Command to Run Windows Program

This post is about to discuss the way to open different popular Windows Application by running single command. It will help you to run the application from single place, i.e. command prompt or Run.

Lets see the commands and try in our system….

How to delete a Windows Partition Using Command Line

In this post, we will describe how to delete a partition from command line. It is necessary when you are not able to do it from Disk Management (GUI). Let’s not delay and start.

Step 1: Run Command Prompt as Administrator: Click Start Menu/Search Box, type Command Prompt. Right-click on Command Prompt App and Click Run as administrator.

Step 2: Enter Disk management Utility: Type diskpart and Hit Enter

Step 3: Show available Disks: Type list disk and Hit Enter. [in this case only one disk is available]

Step 4: Select the desired disk: Type select disk 0 and Hit Enter. [will modify partitions from Disk 0]

Step 5: Show Available Partitions: type list partition and Hit Enter. [partitions are listed]

Step 6: Select Desired Partition: Type select partition 6 and Hit Enter. [will modify partitions 6]

Step 7: Delete the Selected Partition: Type delete partition override and Hit Enter.

Step 8: Verify that Partition is deleted: Repeat Step 5.

You can see the partition 6 is no more available here.