In the earlier post on Powershell,I had shown how to simultaneously open all the files of similar extension type within a given folder. This naturally leads us to the extension – if we can open all the files at same time,is there any way we can write to those files too all in one go? …
Windows 7 by default doesn’t come with telnet server and client services as enabled. We need to enable them manually and that’s a good thing from security perspective. Here is how to enable Telnet in Windows 7. It is pretty much the same as enabling in Vista,please refer to my earlier post for Vista. 1.Go to …
By default,the Start Menu in Windows 7 doesn’t have the Run option from where you can execute command line tasks or open applications. Here is how to enable it : Right click on Start Menu button (the round Windows button) and select Properties. Go to Start Menu tab and hit Customize. Scroll down and check …
Windows 7 comes bundled with the cool PowerShell. It is better than the regular command prompt and provides greater degree of control and automation for system admins. Most of the work done in Powershell is through cmdlets (small built-in commands which access required objects and modify them). Here I will show you how to open …
Control Panel contains most of the stuff that is needed for customizing Windows and it can become a bit time consuming to every time hit Start menu and launch it in Windows 7. To put the Control Panel icon directly on desktop : 1. Go to Start > Control Panel and right click it. 2. …
How many times do we type http://somesitename.com or .org or .net and hit enter in the browser? Here are a few browser independent shortcut keys that can save time and avoid the every time typing of http:// and .com/.net/.org. Open the browser window and simply type the website name and simply press any of the …
Windows Vista comes with a pretty good firewall that can be configured easily. It may happen at times that a program that is installed can no longer download updates or connect to the internet because the Windows firewall no longer recognizes it(say after an update) or blocks it. To overcome this,we can manually add programs …
Mozilla Firefox has plenty of really useful add-ons and 1-click YouTube video downloader is one of them. Download the latest version from here which works with the new YouTube code (some previous YouTube downloader add-ons in Firefox have stopped working or have glitches after the site was changed). Select Add to Firefox to get it …
There is a central dashboard that monitors the status of different services provided by Google (gmail,calendar,google talk etc). To access this apps status dashboard go to : http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en Cheers.
The bobs plotter scratches beside the precedent. Hint – check out my previous post on randomness. Cheers.