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 …
Some Firefox add-ons are pretty cool. Morning coffee is an add-on that basically stores sites that are frequently visited as a list and slotted as per weekdays.This eliminates the daily chore of opening the same websites in multiple tabs again and again daily. Download the add-on from here.Using it is very simple and effective too.Once …
There are some great themes for Windows Vista but one really cool theme is the Vista to Leopard transformation pack. Download it from here. Installing it is quite straight forward.Once the setup is downloaded,run it. Accept the license agreement and select All the options for the best possible effects of the OS X transformation pack. …
>Task manager in Windows is useful,but what about tasklist? Tasklist is a command line utility in Windows XP Professional(not in Home)onwards. Let’s say I want to see all the processes and their associated dlls which are running on my Windows box just by using a simple command prompt.I can use tasklist to accomplish that,here is …
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 …
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 …