Many times,the windows automatic updates dialog can become an eye sore especially when the box is in public view.Hitting the later button will only make it go away for a while and then it pops up again. In my earlier post,I had written how useful psexec actually is. I can think of a simple analogy …
It is common in Windows that while working we suddenly find ourselves unable to click or do much because of “hangs” in the system. There can be many many reasons for this to happen,event viewer can help to see that.Most of the times,we restart Windows to make the frozen screen go away,however there is one …
I wanted to transfer the entire collection of songs and movies from my ipod nano to Vista laptop. Idump came to the rescue,it seamlessly copied all my stuff and also preserved the original files on ipod. To use it,download it from here. This is a nice freeware that gets the work done quickly. Method to …
There are many useful commands and the shortcuts to invoke them in Windows. One such widely overlooked but a sure time saver is the command history popup window from Windows command prompt. As Windows users/power users/admins,we use command prompt to varying extent and yes it does get boring to type the command that we typed …
It is quite a familiar scenario that helpdesk/tech support/systems administration folks need to see what is there on a remote box without using a remote viewer like VNC or using RDP (Of course I am talking about Microsoft Windows family here 🙂 ). Say like the other day when I wanted to refresh group policies …
I am being very irregular in my blog posts here.Travel and other activities like soul searching are taking most of my time. Recently I bought a book called The Power Of Now by Eckhart Tolle which dwells on topics of spiritualism and soul searching.Good read and the author writes in a question answer format about …