Category: Software

  • Snipping Tool in Vista/Win7

    Now windows have snipping tool in Vista and Win7. You can use Snipping Tool (normally you can find it at %SystemRoot%system32SnippingTool.exe) to capture a screen shot, or snip, of any object on your screen and then annotate, save, or share the image. Simply use a mouse or tablet pen to capture any of the following…

  • Symbolic Links

    Vista and WIN7 now supports symbolic links, a feature that has been enjoyed in UNIX for a long time. D:>mklink Creates a symbolic link. MKLINK [[/D] | [/H] | [/J]] Link Target /D      Creates a directory symbolic link.  Default is a file symbolic link. /H      Creates a hard link instead of a symbolic link. /J     …

  • Fiddler

    Overview Fiddler is an HTTP debugging proxy that logs all HTTP traffic between your computer and the Internet. Fiddler enables you to inspect all HTTP traffic, set breakpoints, and "fiddle" with incoming or outgoing data. Fiddler is much simpler to use than NetMon or other network debuggers because it exposes only HTTP traffic and does…

  • Control panel applets

    Control panel applets (.CPL) is a shortcut to launch administrator tools quickly. These are some that used frequently after new OS is setup. intl.cpl – Regional and Language Options timedate.cpl – Date and Time Properties inetcpl.cpl – Internet Properties ncpa.cpl – Network Connections powercfg.cpl – Power Options Properties

  • MSCDCRC

    MSCDCRC is a CRC checking tool. It can be used to verify all files in media have no errors to avoid hours later wasted installing with bad media. Here is example of command output: d:toolsbin>mscdcrc.exe e: MSCDCRC 4.11 CD-ROM Disc Verification Utility Copyright (C) Microsoft, 1992-2004 MSCDCRC: Verifying disc in drive E: (3,858,216,960 bytes) 100%…

  • How to delete a notebook in Office OneNote

    Q: How to delete a notebook in Office OneNote? Doesn’t seem to be a way to delete a whole notebook A: Since it’s just a folder, you must do this from the windows file system.  Go to “My Documents -> OneNote Notebooks”, find the file folder (notebook), right click and choose Delete

  • OneNote Online Videos and How-To articles

    Video Demos What is OneNote? Get an up-close look at the benefits of using OneNote and see why electronic notes are better than paper. Set up a OneNote notebook See how easy it is to get started with OneNote and why you won’t want to go back to paper notes. Keep it together with OneNote…

  • Find Computer Owner

    At times people want to find out who owns a certain machine. My Network places -> Search Active Directory -> Find: Computers, Enter Computer name: “FOOBAR”, Click “Find Now”, Select Result, Right Click “Manage” -> Local Users and Groups -> Groups -> Administrators -> (Find who is an admin on the box). Another method is…

  • How to make your machine think it has less memory than it really does

    There’s a hidden, system, read-only file called boot.ini in system boot drive. Here’s a sample to run 1 GB dual as a 128 MB uniprocessor: [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)WINDOWS=”Microsoft Windows XP Professional” /fastdetect /numproc=1 /maxmem=128

  • Recover deleted mail in outlook

    Have you ever deleted an email, emptied your deleted items folder and then realized one day or two later that you need them? Well you can recover them in outlook using the following easy steps: Select the ‘Delete Items’ folder Go to Tools->Recover Deleted Items… You will see a nice list of all the email…