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How to determine Domain Functional Level

Jan 16, 2013 · 1 min read · active-directory · microsoft · windows ·

Not an everyday task this (once you’ve checked it you can usually remember what the level is!), but here’s how to find the Domain Functional Level of your Active Directory domain and whilst there check for any trust relationships with other domains.

Disabling Alt-Print Screen in Evernote with Skitch installed

Dec 20, 2012 · 1 min read · evernote ·

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If you’re using Evernote Skitch for Windows you will notice that the Alt-Print Screen key combination now opens up Skitch rather than copying a snapshot of the current window to the Clipboard. Whilst I’m a big fan of the Evernote/ Skitch combination and the clipping, I want to retain the Alt-Print Screen combo for …

Evernote Skitch for Windows

Dec 6, 2012 · 1 min read · evernote ·

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Evernote Skitch is now available for Windows, first impressions of the app on my Windows 7 desktop are good, it’s recreating the simplicity of the Android app very well.<–more–> More details here- http://blog.evernote.com/2012/10/25/skitch-for-windows-desktop-and-skitch-for-windows-8-are-here/

Generating Reports in WinDirStat

Nov 30, 2012 · 1 min read · windirstat ·

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To use WinDirStat to generate reports of disk usage you need to have either Outlook or Outlook Express installed as the reports are generated as an email.<–more–> Without one of these mail clients an “unknown error” message is shown. (found in version 1.1.2.80)

Evernote Clipper

Nov 22, 2012 · 1 min read · evernote ·

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I use Evernote a lot for note-taking, keeping track of ideas, code snippets, conversations, and so on. One of the great added features on the Windows desktop is the Clipper functionality. This is a great screen clipper- by pressing Win-Key and Prnt-Scrn together (on Windows 7, Windows 8 uses that “charm” …

Keeping Digital Photos safe

Nov 22, 2012 · 2 min read · photos · dropbox ·

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Fairly regularly at work I’m asked what I do to keep my digital photos safe. This question usually comes from someone who’s just had a hard disk failure or similar and lost their photo collection. At home my budget (like most people’s) doesn’t run to a Storage Area Network with fault-tolerant, …

New SkyDrive desktop client

Nov 20, 2012 · 1 min read · microsoft · onedrive ·

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There’s a new client out for Microsoft SkyDrive. I take advantage of the free cloud storage services on a number of providers but don’t always want to sync everything to my local hard disk. Thankfully Microsoft have added this feature to their desktop app.

Formatting the Windows date in a filename.

May 16, 2012 · 1 min read · microsoft · windows ·

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I’ve often needed to date an output file or backup folder created from a Windows script. The %DATE% variable cannot be used on it’s own because it returns a value with slashes in. This method formats it to the ISO standard YYYYMMDD

Converting Excel Dates to UNIX Timestamps

Dec 7, 2011 · 1 min read · microsoft · excel ·

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Converting Excel Dates to UNIX Timestamps

A previous article showed how to convert a UNIX Timestamp to an Excel Date. It’s also possible to do the reverse- convert an Excel Date value to a UNIX formatted Timestamp.

Windows Defender Offline Beta

Dec 7, 2011 · 1 min read · microsoft · windows defender ·

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Having been given a laptop where the user had clicked on a link they probably shouldn’t have this morning and was now getting prompted to clean their system for only $9.99, I took the opportunity to test out the new Beta of Windows Defender Offline.