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ColdFusion Quick Fix

Cold Fusion Server Recovery Utilities

Disclaimer: Please note, all utilities are provided on an as is basis. No warranty is expressed or implied. All tools and scripts available here are to be used at your own risk and by downloading and using these tools you agree to hold edgewebhosting.net free of any and all liability. These tools and utilities many not be distributed, repackaged or sold without express prior written consent from ACS Edgewebhosting.net

Here are some of the tools and utilities that can help you with cfserver recovery.

Kill Utility
Service Restart Utilities
CFMail Bug
MDB File Repair and Recovery
Registry Fix

- Kill Utility

Many of the batch files below that perform hard service restarts use a freeware utility called PsKill.exe that can be downloaded here:

Download PsKill (32KB)
View Documentation

Once you download this utility, place a copy of pskill.exe into your \WINNT\SYSTEM32 folder. It will then be accessible to all of your scripts since it will remain in the path.

- Restart Utilities

Please review each of the batch files below to ensure that they are compatible with your systems and work with the appropriate services running your your server.

Soft Restarts: The following batch files will perform normal service restarts using traditional methods. These can be used for general service restarts to resolve minor problems.

Soft Restart for ColdFusion: cfsoft.bat
Soft Restart for IIS: iissoft.bat
Soft Restart for ColdFusion and IIS: cfiissoft.bat

Hard Restarts: The hard reset utilities below let you restart services in a critical situation. Please note, these are only to be used in case of emergency:

Hard Reset of ColdFusion: cfhard.bat
Hard Reset of IIS: iishard.bat
Hard Reset of ColdFusion and IIS: cfiishard.bat

- CFMail Bug

Download and run the following batch file to fix the cfmail bug: FixMail.bat

- MDB File Recovery Tools

Step 1) Run repair and compact on the database within Microsoft Access:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;209137

Step 2) Run JETCOMP.EXE on the database available from Microsoft
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;239114

Step 3) Use the following utility to find out if the database has a password, and ensure that the password is used in your ODBC setup in Cold Fusion.
http://edgewebhosting.net/quickfix/accesspwd.zip

- Registry Fix

To repair the CF Registry problem, you may download Macromedia's utility to clean the registry, although this utility may take several hours to complete the repair.
http://www.macromedia.com/v1/handlers/index.cfm?ID=20340

Or, we have provided a utility that performs the same task in just a few minutes. It is available at the following link:
http://edgewebhosting.net/quickfix/cfregfix.exe

- Edgewebhosting.net dedicated server customers get access to these utilities and a wealth of others including disk monitoring, error handlers, metabase backup scripts, self healing server recovery utilities that monitor for many of these conditions and take steps to perform automatic server recovery.

Edgewebhositng.net is a Macromedia Alliance Hosting Partner and CFDJ Readers Choice Award finalist specializing in Managed Dedicated and Shared ColdFusion Hosting focused specifically on the needs of CF developers.