Problem:
You’ve closed the Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 Server Configuration menu and need to re-open it:
Solution:
The command to re-open this window has changed with the R2 release. The new command is sconfig.cmd, with the non-R2 version, the command was hvconfig.cmd. Start Windows Task Manager by pressing Ctrl & Shift & Esc. Click File>New Task:
Type cmd.exe /k C:\Windows\system32\sconfig.cmd and click ok:
You now have a new Server Configuration window:
Simply entering sconfig.cmd in the command prompt window will work, but you’ll lose your command prompt window so it is a less than desirable solution.
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Has anyone found a way to reverse the option “10) Do not display this menu at login”? A customer has done this and now we permanently have a single command line window. I’d like to re-enable it so that both command line and the Server Configuration tool are opened upon login. Thanks!
I figured out how to do it the hard way by sorting through the menu code and discovered that it just removes a registry key. For other’s benefit, here is the command that I ran to re-insert the registry key and activate the menu again:
REG ADD HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run /v sconfig /t REG_SZ /d "cmd.exe /k C:\Windows\system32\sconfig.cmd"If anyone has a simpler way to do it, feel free to respond and share with others.