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  • Windows 8 Getting Start Experience

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    After the release of Windows 8 Consumer Preview, I was very excited to give it a try on my hyper-v VM. There is a lot of difference between Windows 7 and 8, especially Windows 8 has optimized a lot for tablet users. Lock screen Windows 8 lock screen provides quick view of latest data, time,…

  • How to delete windows.old after upgrading to Window 10

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    Windows.old is a folder that contains archive information from previous windows system when you upgrading to Windows 10.  It mainly stores programs and files that are required to run the earlier version of Windows and contains following folders. Windows “Documents and Settings” “Program Files” You might end up having a Windows.old folder taking up 20+…

  • Span Remote Desktop Across Multiple Monitors

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    To span remote desktop across multiple monitors, launch an RDP connection using mstsc /span from the command prompt on your machine. This works on Vista/Windows 7. If you have a Win2K3 machine then you need have Terminal Services Client 6.0 installed. You can download it here. Update If you use Remote Desktop Client 7.0 connect…

  • Forget WordPress Admin Password

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    After setup local WordPress environment, WordPress will generate a password for admin logon. The password is so strong that forget the password can easily happen. The easiest way to get admin password back is reset it again in database. Here is the SQL command that will do it: UPDATE ‘wp_users’ SET ‘user_pass’ = MD5(‘PASSWORD‘) WHERE…

  • Batch Script Tips

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    Getting the current working directory cd /d %~dp0 Comment: %0 is the name of the batch file. ~dp gives you the drive and path.

  • Find Computer Owner

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    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…

  • Nice Win7 shortcut key combinations

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    A list of shortcuts specific to Windows 7 Windows shortcuts WinKey + Up arrow Maximize window WinKey + Down arrow Restore/Minimize window WinKey + Left arrow Snap window to left WinKey + Right arrow Snap window to right WinKey + Shift + Left arrow Jump window to left monitor WinKey + Shift + Right arrow…

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

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    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

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    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…

  • Changing the computername

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    Domain joined netdom.exe renamecomputer %computername% /NewName:<new name> /userd:domainuser /passwordd:* Non-Domain joined wmic.exe computersystem where name="%computername%" rename name="<new name>"