How to delete old Windows installation folder

To delete the older Windows installation folder you will have to let windows know that its older installation and clean it using disk cleanup.

• Rename the older Windows installation folder to Windows.old
• Now run the disk clean up by right clicking the drive where the old Windows folder exists.
• During disk cleanup select clear system files.
• Now it will detect that there is old Windows folder which can be cleaned.
• Select the Older Windows installation files and complete the disk clean up. 
• The Windows.old folder will get deleted automatically.

 

Error : file .ps1 cannot be loaded because the execution of scripts is disabled on this system

During execution of  powershell script you may face the error "File .......ps1 cannot be loaded because the execution of scripts is disabled on this system."

This is because the script execution is by default disable. You will have to enable it to execute the powershell scripts.

To enable the script execution run following commandlet on powershell.

Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted

OR

Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -Force

For more information please refer the here Running Windows PowerShell Scripts.

Windbg: The call to LoadLibrary failed, Win32 error 0n193

While analyzing the managed process dump you may get the error as below:

The call to LoadLibrary(C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\sos) failed, Win32 error 0n193 
"%1 is not a valid Win32 application." 
Please check your debugger configuration and/or network access.

On of the major reason of this error could be :You might be debugging 64 bit process dump using  32 bit debugger. Try using the 64bit debugger. 

You can side by side install and use the 32 bit and 64 bit debugging tools for Windows.

Once you have chosen the correct Windbg version, first try executing the command 
.loadby sos clr
before starting your dump analysis.