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Interesting Reading this week (w/e 25 Jan 2013)

Jan 25, 2013 · 1 min read · dell · atari · windows ·

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Interesting Reading this week (w/e 25 Jan 2013)

Some interesting or useful articles, blog posts, and other stuff I looked at this week……

How to determine Domain Functional Level

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

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How to determine Domain Functional Level

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.

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

Windows 7 Hibernation file on an old Netbook

Nov 29, 2011 · 2 min read · microsoft · windows ·

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Windows 7 Hibernation file on an old Netbook

I’ve been trying to squeeze a little more life out of an old netbook with a small SSD. It’s running a fairly minimal Windows 7 install but the C:\ drive (where Windows is installed) keeps filling up. I’ve relocated the virtual memory pagefile.sys file to the more spacious D:\ drive, but wasn’t …

Line counting in Windows batch files

May 31, 2011 · 1 min read · microsoft · windows ·

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In Linux the wc -l command gives a count of the number of lines in a file or pipe. Windows doesn’t have the wc command, but the same can be done using the built-in find command as follows:

Scheduled Tasks running every 15 minutes

May 12, 2011 · 1 min read · microsoft · windows ·

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In Windows XP, the Scheduled Tasks system only offers the choice of “Daily”, “Weekly”, “Monthly”, “Once” or when the computer starts or the user logs on. It’s possible, however, to schedule tasks to occur much more frequently, for example every 15 minutes.

How to make a USB Boot Disk

May 10, 2011 · 1 min read · microsoft · windows ·

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Brief instructions on how to make a USB flash drive that can boot a computer into Windows 98 DOS mode. Useful for running things like Norton Ghost.

Can't open StickyKeys settings

Apr 21, 2011 · 1 min read · microsoft · windows ·

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By default on a Windows XP pressing the Shift Key 5 times in a row turns on StickyKeys and brings up the warning dialog. In normal operation this doesn’t happen very often, but if you’re bashing someone with your rifle in Call of Duty it can pull you out of the game to show this dialog.

Normally you click …

du for Windows

Apr 21, 2011 · 1 min read · microsoft · windows ·

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One of those UNIX commands that is oh-so-useful when working from the command line is du or “disk usage”. This command calculates the total size of all the files and subfolders within a folder.

Drives not mapping on Windows 7 but OK on XP?

Apr 20, 2011 · 1 min read · microsoft · windows ·

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A short puzzler here- I had a group policy script mapping a (DFS) network drive at user login. It had always worked fine on XP, but the same users logging in to a Windows 7 PC didn’t get the drive mapped.