How To Activate the .NET Framework 3.5 on Windows 8 Without Internet Access - Premier Field Engineering - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

How To Activate the .NET Framework 3.5 on Windows 8 Without Internet Access - Premier Field Engineering - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

But what do you do if you have no Internet connection? The solution emerges with the Windows 8 ISO and DISM. Have a look below for a quick step-by-step guide on how to install and activate the .NET Framework 3.5 without Internet access:

1. Create a folder on your system drive called NET35 (example: C:\NET35)
2. Mount your Windows 8 ISO file or DVD
3. Copy the folder sources\sxs\ from the Windows 8 ISO into the newly created NET35 folder. I recommend using XCOPY for it, for example:
   xcopy G:\sources\sxs\*.* C:\NET35 /s[Ed: Note that this copies the contents of the SXS folder into C:\NET35, but not the folder itself]
4. Once you copy all the files, you can now utilize DISM to enable the .NET Framework 3.5 feature by entering the following command in an elevated command prompt (Start, Type "CMD", press Ctrl+Shift+Enter or right-click the Command Prompt item and choose Run as Administrator):
    DISM.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:NetFX3 /All /Source:c:\net35 /LimitAccess[Ed: Note the above is one line but may wrap in this blog depending on formatting - if in doubt, it should be typed as in the screenshot below.]

If everything runs smoothly you should now have the .NET Framework 3.5 installed without the computer needing access to the Internet.

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How to tell how many CPUs (cores) you have on Windows 7 - Super User

How to tell how many CPUs (cores) you have on Windows 7 - Super User
Do a Ctrl + Shift + Esc. This will open the Windows Task Manager. Once you are here, go toPerformance. Now you should see many boxes in the CPU Usage History section which will identify how many cores you have. This will include hyper threaded cores also.

You don't need other programs. Just run this in the command prompt:

WMIC CPU Get DeviceID,NumberOfCores,NumberOfLogicalProcessors

and you will get a list of Cores/Logical Processors for each CPU on your machine

Or if you're lazy, just type

WMIC CPU Get /Format:List

and look for entries with the names NumberOfCores and NumberOfLogicalProcessors.

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PowerShell Magazine » Skipping empty CSV objects

Working with CSV files in PowerShell is a common practice. You import the file, loop on its records and you’re good to go. Sometimes however you may find yourself in a situation where you get a file that has blank lines in it, and those lines can break your script. Consider the following CSV content: ## sample.csv ## column1,column2,column3 Value1,Value2,Value3 Value1,Value2,

You might be attempted to do that with:

1 2	Import-Csv sample.csv | Where-Object {$_.column1 -ne '' -and $_.column1 -ne '' -and $_.column1 -ne ''}

But what if each record has 20 properties, or even more? This is where the PSObject property comes to rescue. In a nutshell, PSObject allows us to work with any object in the same way without really knowing its structure. PowerShell wraps the base object in a PSObject and provide us a simplified and consistent view of the object, its methods, properties, and so on. One of the properties of PSObject is Properties, and it gives us a list of properties of the base object.

For our purpose, we can process the properties list and filter out those who have a Value of null.

Import-Csv sample.csv |

Where-Object { ($_.PSObject.Properties | ForEach-Object {$_.Value}) -ne $null} |

Format-List




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