After searching about the issue, I found a suggestion in Google search to remove all ASP.NET temporary files. Once I removed all the temporary files, the application start working again.

Remove ASP.NET Temp Files in Windows

To clear the temporary files do the following on both the Web Server:

1. Log in to the server and open IIS.
2. Stop IIS service. Run “iisreset /stop” in the command prompt to stop the IIS service.
3. Navigate to the below directories:
   • “C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\Temporary ASP.NET Files\”
   • “C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\Temporary ASP.NET Files\”
4. Remove all files under both directoires.
5. Start IIS service. Run “iisreset /start” in the command prompt to stop the IIS service.

Wrap Up

Even you can remove the temporary file without stopping the IIS server. Hope this tutorial helps you to resolve the caching-related issue on your Windows server.

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The latest Windows 8 and 8.1 systems have Windows Firewall and the Windows 10 and above systems use Windows Defender Firewall. This tutorial is created on Windows 8.1, so the screenshots may differ for Windows 10 and above users.

Enable or Disable the Windows Firewall

Use the below steps to enable or disable a firewall on a Windows system.

1. Search for the Windows firewall in the menu. The screen may differ as per the Windows version.
   

   

2. On this screen you will see the firewall is active or inactive. Under the left sidebar menu click “Turn Windows Firewall on of off”

   

3. Now, you can turn on or turn off the firewall for the private or public networks.
   • Private network settings: This will enable/disable firewall for the local area network (LAN).
   • Public network settings: Use this section to turn on/off access for public (Internet) users

   After selecting the appropriate option, click on the OK button.

   

4. All done. You can revert changes anytime with same steps

Wrap Up

Again we are advised to keep the firewall active on your system. This tutorial helped you to turn on/off the Windows firewall.

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1. How to Check Windows Uptime with Task Manager

A task manager is a computer program used for checking the process and services running and their details. You can also find details about the resource utilization like Memory and CPU uses at runtime. This is also a quick and preferred way for Windows users to find computer uptime.

1. Log in to your Windows system.
2. Right click on task bar and click on Task Manager to launch.
3. Click “More details”, If the task manager opened in compact view.
4. Go to Performance tab
5. In CPU section, you will find computer uptime like below screenshot

As per the above screenshot, this computer is up from 33 Days and 33 minutes.

2. Check Computer Uptime with Command Prompt

You can also find the Windows uptime with the command-line options. Here we will discuss the two commands that provide the uptime details.

A. Using WMIC Command:

WMIC (Windows Management Interface Command), is a simple command-line utility that provides information about the running system. With the help of this command, we can find the last boot-up time.

wmic path Win32_OperatingSystem get LastBootUpTime

B. Using systeminfo Command:

The systeminfo command displays a list of details about your operating system, computer software, and hardware components. You can also check for the value “System Boot Time” to get the computer uptime.

systeminfo | find "System Boot Time"

3. How to Check Windows Uptime with PowerShell

Launch a Powershell window and type the below command to find the last reboot time of the current system.

Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_OperatingSystem | Select LastBootUpTime

You can also view the computer uptime in the number of days, hours, and minutes formats. Execute the below command and check the results.

(get-date) - (gcim Win32_OperatingSystem).LastBootUpTime

You can also store the output of the above commands to a variable. Which can be helpful for scripting purposes. The below command will store all values in the “uptime” variable.

$uptime = (get-date) - (gcim Win32_OperatingSystem).LastBootUpTime

Next, extract the specific values only and print them on the screen.

Write-Output "The Windows Uptime is >> $($uptime.days) Days, $($uptime.Hours) Hours and $($uptime.Minutes) Minutes"

Output:
The Windows Uptime is >> 35 Days, 12 Hours and 46 Minutes

Conclusion

In this tutorial, you have learned various methods for checking Windows uptime. This guide covers the 3 methods like Task manager, command prompt, and PowerShell to get computer uptime.

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You can achieve this by making little changes to the system registry keys. Once the changes are done, multiple users can connect to your system using the RDP client. You can also limit the number of users who can connect at a time.

In this tutorial, we will discuss enabling and disabling multiple remote desktop sessions in Windows servers in 2012, 2012 R2, 2016, 2019 and 2022.

Enable Multiple RDP Sessions

Follow the below steps to enable multiple remote desktop sessions on a Windows system.

1. Log in to the Windows system.
2. Open the start screen (press the Windows key) and type “Edit group policy” or “gpedit.msc”, and launch it.
3. Navigate to Computer Configuration >> Administrative Templates >> Windows Components >> Remote Desktop Services >> Remote Desktop Session Host >> Connections.
4. Double click on “Set Restrict Remote Desktop Services user to a single Remote Desktop Services session and set this to Disabled.
5. Next, double click on “Limit number of connections” and set the RD Maximum Connections allowed to 999999. But, just use 2 sessions that is free with Windows license but to allow more than 2 session required CAL license.

Below is the screenshots of changes being made:

Disable Multiple RDP Sessions

To disbale the multiple remote desktop sessions, follow below instructions:

1. Log in to the Windows system.
2. Open the start screen (press the Windows key) and type “Edit group policy” or “gpedit.msc”, and launch it.
3. Navigate to Computer Configuration >> Administrative Templates >> Windows Components >> Remote Desktop Services >> Remote Desktop Session Host >> Connections.
4. Double click on “Set Restrict Remote Desktop Services user to a single Remote Desktop Services session and set this to “Enabled.

Wrap Up

This tutorial helped you to enable for disable multiple remote desktop sessions on a single Windows system. That is useful for the teams working on the same remote systems.

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Prerequisites

Log in as an Administrator account to your Windows Server 2019 system.

Change User Password in Windows Server 2019

Let’s follow the below steps to change a user’s password in Windows Server 2019.

1. Search for the system Control Panel and launch it.

   

2. Under the User accounts click “Change account type” link:
   

3. You will see a list of all user accounts. Select the user account, you need to change the password.

   

4. Make sure the correct account is selected. Now click on the “Change the password” link.

   

5. Enter your current user password, then provide a new password to set for the user. Make sure you have noted this password in a safe place. Now click on the “Change password” button.

   

Conclusion

Congratulations, You have successfully changed the password of a user in Windows Server 2019.

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This article will help you to find the process name listening on a specific port on a Windows system. Sometimes you may have faced issues like “port in use” during application installation.

You can choose one of the below given 2 methods. The first method uses netstat to find the PID of the process listening on a specific port, then use tasklist to find the process name by the PID.

Method 1. Using Default Command Prompt

Use the following command to find out the process id (PID) listening on port 80. You can change this port to search for another port.

netstat -aon | findstr ":80" | findstr "LISTENING" 

Output:
 TCP    0.0.0.0:80             0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING       4
 TCP    [::]:80                [::]:0                 LISTENING       4

The last column of the output shows the PID of the processes. The above output shows the PID is 4 for the process listening on port 80.

Use this process id with the task list command to find the process name.

tasklist /fi "pid eq 4" 

You will see the process name in the results.

Method 2. Using Get-Process in PowerShell

The second method uses the PowerShell command to find out the process running on a specific port on Windows.

Launch the PowerShell terminal and execute the following command to find the process name running on port 80. You can change the port number to check for other ports.

Get-Process -Id (Get-NetTCPConnection -LocalPort 80).OwningProcess 

You will see the process name in the results.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, you have learned two methods to find process name listening on a specific port on a Windows system.

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Installing Node on Windows

Following are the steps to install Node on Windows system.

1. Download Node.js Installer

   You can downlod the Node Windows installer from its official download page. Download the installer as per your system architecture.

   

2. Run Installer

   Once the installed downloaded, double click on installer file to begin the installation process. Click Next to continue installer.

   

   Next, accept the terms of license agreement and click next to continue installation.

   

   Complete the rest of the steps of the installation wizard.

   The installer will automatically configure the required environment variables for the node binary to your system..

Test Node Version

The above installer do all the required steps to run node on command line interface. You can check the installed node and npm version via command line.

Open a terminal and type the following commands:

node -v
npm -v

Conclusion

In this tutorial, you have learned to install node on a Windows system.

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This tutorial will help you to log all the disconnected remote sessions on the Windows system. This tutorial has been tested with Windows Server 2019.

Setup Auto Log Off Disconnected Sessions

We are making changes in the Local group policy of systems. So be careful with the changes.

First of all, open the ‘Group Policy Editor‘ on your server. Start run window by pressing “Win + R” and type gpedit.msc on run window.

The local group policy editor will be opened on your system. Then navigate to the following location as the below-given instructions:

  Local Computer Policy 
   =>  Computer Configuration 
     =>  Administrative Templates 
	=>  Windows Components 
          =>  Remote Desktop Services 
            =>  Remote Desktop Session Host 
              =>  Session Time Limits

You will find a list of options on the right side. Then Double click on “Set time limit for disconnected sessions” to open it.

By default, it is set to the ‘Not configured’. Change this to ‘Enabled’. Now you will see the option “End a disconnected session” on the lower-left side. Set this value to the desired time. I have set this to 1 hour, so any disconnected user is logged off after 1 hour.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, you have learned to configure your Windows system to auto log out disconnected remote sessions.

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How to Install Windows Service

First of all, navigate to the .net framework directory and then run installutil.exe followed by the Windows server exe file path.

cd "C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\" 
installutil.exe 
 C:\Users\Rahul\WindowsService\bin\Debug\WindowsService.exe" 

This will install service on your system. In case it prompts for the authentication, Input the username, and password of your Windows system. Remember the user name must start with “.\” followed by username as shown in the below screen.

See the onscreen messages and check if the command successfully completed.

How to Uninstall Windows Service

To Uninstall the Windows service using “-u” option with the same command as installation. The command to uninstall the service looks like the below:

cd "C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\" 
installutil.exe -u "C:\Users\Rahul\WindowsService\bin\Debug\WindowsService.exe" 

Conclusion

This tutorial helped you to install the service on the Windows system using the command prompt. Also provides you instructions to delete existing services. Next, you may like to read about managing Windows service via command line.

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Configure Auto-Login for Windows

Here are the steps to enable auto login for Windows 8 and 8.1.

Step 1 – Launch run window (WINDOW + R) and type netplwiz and press Enter key. This will open the user accounts window.

Step 2 – You will see the list of account. Select the account you want to enable auto-login and then uncheck the box before “Users must enter a username and password to use this computer” and click OK. See the below screenshot:

Step 3 – Now this will prompt the username and password of the account you’d like to automatically log in. Click OK to apply changes.

Reboot your Window 8/8.1 system and test if the account is automatically logged in after the reboot.

All done.

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