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PsTools is a suite of Windows command-line tools to manage and administer Windows Machine in respect to process management.

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PsExec hangs. Error launching installer

On certain remote computers when I use PsExec to run installers (.exe files), PsExec just hangs there. When I try running the installer, that PsExec transferred, directly from the remote computer (located in system32) I get the following popup error…
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How to install MS hotfixes for XP on remote machines?

How might I install a hotfix obtained from Microsoft to machines on the network? The hotfix in question comes packaged as an .exe file. I tried using psexec but the process never completes...I assume it's waiting for user input. I'm not sure if…
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How to execute psexec with non domain user?

I have a Windows Server 2012 and a Windows 7 client. I'd like to run psexec on my Windows client to execute a .bat file on my server: psexec /accepteula \\MyServer -u MyUser -p Mypass -d -i "C:/test.bat" The command returns: Acces denied. When I…
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Why am I getting performance counter errors?

I am trying to write C# code to access a computer (XP sp2) remotely to find out if a process is running. I don't know much about performance counters other than what I've been reading in the past couple of days, but here is my problem: For…
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PsExec slow to start a process

PsExec (v2.11) can take up to a minute to invoke a process, either locally or remotely. I'm using the following command line: psexec.exe -u domain\username -p mypassword -accepteula -d -h \\machinename C:\path\to\myapp.exe I have the firewall…
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PsExec - Execute exe with multiple arguments and output the exe's results to a text file

I'm trying to execute Delprof2.exe on multiple computers with multiple arguments and then output its results to a text file. I'm testing on just one machine to start with so I've removed @Computers.txt and -d while testing. I can't get the output of…
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Remote location management copy and install large software updates to 50 LAN

Initially posted to Stack Overflow and was directed here. I'm new to programming and am trying to write a powershell script to manage software updates. I'm in a windows domain environment with over 50 remote offices. Each office has 4 computers.…
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wmic hanging on remote server?

Based on information from my previous question, I'm trying to learn wmic. I'm playing around with trying to look at which processes are using the most resources on a remote server. What I've managed to come up with is near the bottom of this post.…
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psexec exits with " exited on with error code 128"

We have several Windows 2003 servers that we run utilities on using psexec. Recently, it stopped working on one of them. For those unfamiliar with it, here's how the process normally works: Psexec: copies PSEXESVC.exe to \\target\admin$ (Typically…
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Remotely start VNC server on computer with no Admin password

I'm trying to remotely access a particular computer of mine and it seems that VNC has stopped. I can tell that the computer is still running because I can VNC into another machine on the same network and can see my target machine under the Network…
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PsExec on Windows Server 2008

Trying to psexec to win2k8 server but get "Access denied" eventhough I'm local administrator - works fine on win2k3 - anyone? I have tried doing "net use * /del". I have tried using the ip, and the netbios name. I have tried running in an elevated…
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Accurate modeling with the psping -l parameter?

I'm in the process of setting up a psping job to allow me to test the performance of some new network based applications in my environment. I'm a little hung up on the -l argument for specifying the request size. Should I be expressing this as the…
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PsExec :: Access Denied

I am working on PsExec but i get error as "Access Denied " Firewall is disabled on both machine. Ports are also open at both machine. C:\PSTOOLS>PsExec \\192.168.1.232 -u Administrator "c:\test\sample.bat Shailesh" PsExec v1.98 - Execute processes…
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PSEXEC Access denined using local account which exists both servers

2 Windows 2012 Server, no firewall, nothing triggered in MS Security Center Endpoint Protection. Server A (GIS Server) utilizes a local account to perform various task; this account must exist on all other servers for it to be able to access those…
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Psexec failing to connect the remote VM

I have got two machines (machine1 & machine2). My task is to execute few commands remotely via PSEXEC from machine1 to machine2. Sadly these machines are from different network domains. Admin Share is enabled in both the machines. machine2 can be…
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