I hate windows’s jump lists. If you read this you probably hate them too They are stored as hidden files in a, you guessed, hidden directory. You can’t browse to it but you can type it in RUN or windows explorer location bar: %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\AutomaticDestinations You will see there a bunch of files with long...
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Killall for windows :)
Ever wanted to kill a process from the command line in windows? Here’s how: If you know the name of a process to kill, for example firefox.exe, use the following command from a command prompt to end it: View Code DOS1 taskkill /IM firefox.exe This will cause the program to terminate gracefully, asking for...
How to check if TRIM is enabled on your SSD
God a fancy new drive? SSD maybe? TRIM support advertised? Well, here’s how you can check if TRIM support is actually enabled and working in your windows installation: Start a command prompt window (WIN+R, type cmd and press enter) In the command prompt window type the following: fsutil behavior query disabledeletenotify You will get...
Windows XP – prevent a user’s password from expiring
One of my clients called be mecause every now and then his was bugged by Windows XP to change his password. This seemed weird as XP doesn’t do this by default. Probably it was set to expire by someone or by some friendly security suite. Fortunately the solution for this expiring password problem is...
Docx files in Office 2003
If you, like many of my clients regularly receive files from partners that have already upgraded to microsoft office 2007 have the annoyance that the files are always saved in the docx format (because people don’t go to the trouble to Save as office 2003) then you probably think that it’s time to upgrade....
Mrvlusgtracking – is it spyware?
I found this weird looking process working on an infected computer. Further investigation revealed that it just came with a Marvell network driver. It just sits there and creates a log file, so leaving it in should not hurt anything. They should name their programs more peaceful
Running 16 bit apps in Windows 7 64 bit
We got for my wife a much needed upgrade for her aging Toshiba laptop. The new one came with Windows 7 64 bit. I managed to get all her old software working with the exception of Oxford Superlex. This one is a dictionary from the Windows 3.11 ages. It worked fine in all windowses...
Configure the behaviour of backspace in Firefox for Linux
It’s a mystery for me why on windows firefox developers have conceived one use for backspace and another for firefox on linux. If you are coming from windows and moving onto linux you might be used to press backspace to go back one page in Firefox. Well you’re in for a small surprise –...
How to mount a windows share (samba) from the linux command line
As you know Linux does not use drive letters like Windows does. All files are organized under a big tree hierarchy. We use the mount command to mount partitions and this is the same command used to mount remote windows partition or windows shares. Please note that you’ll need to know the following: Windows...
Old Soundblaster Live 5.1 on windows 7
I tried running Windows 7 on a machine that had a Creative Sound Blaster Live 5.1 card inside. Since the 5.1 is a decent card I see no reason to replace it just because windows 7 came along. Please note that these unofficial updated drivers also bring along Windows 64 bit support. A quick...
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