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I ran across this last week while helping a bank determine what Windows patch broke one of their internal applications. This meant I was manually installing different patches one by one (Including SP2 for XP) – and looking for them on Google. In one of my searches I came across this search result: Now looking […]
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I continue to be surprised by the number of people still using Windows 95/98/ME. I asked people earlier to let us know if they were interested in a 9x patch (For New Zealand), and we have gotten so much email we have had a hard time answering it all. Your wish has been answered and […]
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Actually I lied. Actually a double-click. But that doesn’t sound like a good title…so there :=- It is really simple, and this will work under Windows XP, and 2003 – not sure if it will work under Vista, but I would imagine the UAC prompt would ruin the whole experience. Open notepad and put in […]
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After creating the IE 7 Tweaking tool we seem to get loads of questions about IE 7. One of the latest was about setting multiple home pages in IE 7 from the command line. Hmm. Before someone asked I never had thought about it. If you look into the settings of IE 7, you can […]
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I stumbled across a cool utility provided by Microsoft. It is actually a Sysinternals tool created by Mark Russinovich. If you are the type that likes to get every sliver of performance out of your system – then this is for you. It is called PageDefrag It essentially allows you to defragment the page file, […]
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I was upgrading my home network over the weekend, and one of the changes I wanted to make was the location of the favorites folder. Unless you are using roaming profiles, your favorites folder will always be on your local hard drive. This means that if you login to more than one computer you will […]
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One of my major hangups with vista is the ‘Search Bar’. When I first started using Vista I felt that Microsoft had done a great thing – They made it so I could launch my favorite program with one click instead of two. I was quickly disappointed to find that when you type a word […]
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When I was looking at the documentation for the registry and keys associated with the command processor I came across this: Hmm. For the fun of it I opened up the key and put ‘notepad.exe’ in the AutoRun value.(To see how this actually worked) Any time I opened a console application, or a command prompt […]
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One of the things I do all the time in XP, 2000, and 2003 is use the RunAs command. It comes in handy when you are running as a limited user, and need to fire up a process as an administrator. Here is the typical command line sequencec:> Runas /user:intelliadmin\administrator notepad.exeEnter the password for intelliadmin\administrator: […]
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I have an old friend that lives about a mile away from me. We went to elementary school together, and were best of friends until a little after high school…and we drifted as we got busy with our own lives. Well… He still remembers me plunking away on my Commodore 64 back in the day, […]
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