Microsoft Windows – “The specified service has been marked for deletion” error [New Question]

A quick question, answered on Heelpbook, about “Microsoft Windows – “The specified service has been marked for deletion” error”, a scenario that could arise while automating configurations and/or deployments (but also on simple standalone systems) on Windows systems. Read More …

Java (JRE/JDK) – Check version installed

The Java development kit (JDK) contains tools for Java development, and the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) contains a JVM to convert byte code .class to machine code, and execute it, in short, the JRE runs Java program. In this this article we will see different methods to check which version is installed on a Linux/Windows system. Read More …

Read content of compressed file (.zip file) using PowerShell [New Question]

A quick question, answered on Heelpbook, about “Read content of compressed file (.zip file) using PowerShell”, something that could be useful in some scenarios like testing or development to extract programmatically needed files from dev kits. Read More …

Downgrade nodejs when needed using CLI [New Question]

A quick question, answered on Heelpbook, about how to “Downgrade nodejs when needed using CLI”, on both Windows and Linux platforms. Here two available methods (they are not the only ones) to downgrade nodejs (and npm) using command line approach. Read More …

Clear Event Logs with Powershell (Microsoft Windows)

Let’s see how to quickly clear all available Event Logs on modern Windows clients and servers (this is usually useful on test systems and for troubleshooting, sometimes, but after a backup of all Event Logs). Read More …