In this video i will manually compacting the WINS Database with the Jetpack Utility.
In this exercise, you will compact the WINS database using the jetpack utility.
- Log on to the console of your WINS server.
- Open the WINS snap-in by selecting Start ? Administrative Tools ? WINS.
- Right-click the appropriate WINS server, and then choose All Tasks ? Stop.
- Open a command prompt by selecting Start ? Run. Type cmd.
- Change to the WINS database directory (by default, it’s Windows\system32\wins).
- Type dir *.mdb and note the size of the wins.mdb file.
- Type jetpack wins.mdb temp.mdb.
- Type dir *.mdb and note the size of the wins.mdb file. Determine whether or not the size has changed.
- Switch back to the WINS snap-in console, right-click the server, and choose All Tasks ? Start command.



