The full potential of netsh.

I have not been around much to have been posting some new errors. I have received many emails over the past few weeks and I have been trying to reply (usually in under an hour) and get everyone's problems fixed. Remember you can email me at:


Now time to move on to: Netsh.

Netsh is a command-line based tool that can be used to locally or remotely administer a computer. I recently stumbled upon it when I was searching for a way to set DNS servers via the command-line. Various "things" you can do with Netsh will be shown below:

Set IP Address/Subnet/Gateway
netsh interface ip set address "<name of connection>" static <ip address> <subnet> <default gateway>

Set DNS Server(s)
netsh int ip set dns "<name of connection>" static <ip address> primary
To Set More DNS Servers:
netsh int ip add dns "<name of connection>" <ip address>

Set Connection To DHCP
netsh interface ip set address "<name of connection>" dhcp

Set WINS Server(s)
netsh interface ip set wins "<name of connection>" static <ip address>
To Set More WINS Servers:
netsh interface ip add wins "<name of connection>" <ip address>

Those are just some basic examples. I hope that you can benefit from this command as much as I recently have been able to!

-James Hartig

Myspace Music Player White Blank Not Loaded (Fixed!)

In a previous post written by James (http://fastest963windows.blogspot.com/2008/06/myspace-music-player-white-blank-not.html), he wrote about how the Myspace.com music player showed up blank and I have found the fix.

OpenDNS puts lads.myspace.com in the "Adware" block site category and thus blocks that domain from any requests. If you are your network administrator, unblock the "Adware" category and then wait a minute or so (and maybe restart your browser) and then it will show up again. (Or instead of disabling the blocking of "Adware" you could just whitelist Myspace.com like Jimmy said)

Weird how the OpenDNS community tagged that domain as "Adware". Its a music player for goodness sake lol.

Travis Cunningham

Myspace Music Player White Blank Not Loaded

If you have opendns and myspace music player's are not working, it is because opendns blocks lads.myspace.com!

I have flagged the site for review and I will post back if any problems still arise.

If you want to fix this problem and you have a opendns account pointing to your home ip, then you can login and goto settings. Then under filtering, choose whitelist and enter "myspace.com" (no quotes).

I will post back with any replies or fixes I can find.

Sorry he couldn't provide an all around fix,
James Hartig