It is here, update Windows 7 with SP1. Go to Windows Updates and click on Search for updates for the SP to be listed, then download and install it by simply selecting Install Updates. Should take about 20-30 minutes from download to few restarts of Windows 7. Cheers and happy patching.
It may happen at times that Windows crashes or there is a power failure which causes disk drives to lose data (doesn’t happen frequently fortunately). There is a quick way to check whether a select drive or a set of drives are ok after a crash or an abnormal Windows restart. This is done through …
Wildcards can be pretty helpful when doing some basic tasks either from the Windows GUI or the beloved command prompt. Let’s take a look at the frequently used wildcard * for doing some simple but effective stuff. For understanding purposes,I have created a folder called textfiles in C: with the following files : apples.txt,oranges.txt,bananas.txt,applejuice.txt,orangejuice.txt.bananajuice.txt Let’s …
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 …