It seriously irks me when general public operating systems build in default features that send data to their servers without clearly indicating so. Both Microsoft (with Windows 10) and Apple (with Yosemite) have done so. Disabling these features doesn’t take long so here’s what you need to do. Windows 10...

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PowerShell is one of Windows’ most underused tools in my opinion. In many cases it rivals if not betters support that bash scripts provide. If you want to remove the extension of a file (say removing ‘!ut’ from file names), it’s a simple one line command. dir *.!ut | rename-item...

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Windows, at times, denies you the right to delete a file or a folder. I’ve noticed this happening especially when you copy the contents of the folder to empty it and later try to delete it. At this moment, you’ve got to ask yourself if you’ve got the necessary permissions...

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TeraCopy is an amazing tool for Windows which allows users to queue up copy requests, pause them, re-order them and change copy file lists at run time. It’s got a lot of power and great integration with Windows. It’s a tool which I highly recommend. Go check it out! I...

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There used to be a slightly long way to do this earlier but I found a simple one line command to do it. It is probably old but it’s one I didn’t know of. convert L: /fs:NTFS This converts L: to NTFS without removing any data from the drive. This...

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I noticed that my old file list generator page didn’t have a valid link any more. Since I’d go through and upload it again, I guess it would be worth it to add some minor documentation and make the path variable optional as well :) Here are some sample scripts...

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This is something one might need to do regularly. I need to because wget often creates multiple index.html@* files despite being set up not to (my GUI for wget might forget configs.. who knows?) I’m left with a couple of hundred folders with 6 html files each which to me...

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A problem I’ve faced quite a few times is having a folder full of files with a padded extension that needs to be removed before I can use the files. This can happen with .tmp, .bak, or other temporary extensions added by various applications. It’s easy to rename all files...

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Your first thought on reading this probably is “Why in the world would I need to do that?” Well, I would have thought of it the same way a week back. But it seems some times, Windows does not want to give access to certain features such as Advanced File...

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On a lazy Sunday afternoon when you’ve got nothing better to do, you either write rather useless scripts or update them. I chose to do the latter. The file list generation script I wrote some time back was mainly to generate a list of movies I have. When I generated...

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I have a whole load of movies that I’d like to generate a list of. I considered writing a batch script but it didn’t really do something I needed. I ended up writing my first regular use (non test) PowerScript and here’s how. My first requirement was to list all...

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I noticed that Dell had finally released updates for some of their drivers on their support site for a Dell Studio XPS 1640 on Windows 7 x64. I immediately started downloading them and after a reboot noticed that the update for IDT sound driver causes a freeze in any application...

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Sensible Vision came out with this pretty amazing software called FastAccess that does a decent job at facial recognition. But using it on Windows 7 has given me a few issues so I thought I should just talk about it. I’ve been using Windows 7 ever since the first beta...

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The Windows key might have started as something a tad bit redundant (considering Ctrl+Esc does the same thing) but the Windows Key is so much more. I have already spoken about the Win+(1-9) to activate programs in Vista’s Quick Launch Toolbar and its transition to taskbar applications in Windows 7....

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Well, I’ve been browsing through Visual Studio 2010 for a while now. I’ve not gotten into coding but did get a chance to have a look at the User Interface for this product. Here are some of the things I’ve noticed. WPF is in: Oh yes, you heard right! The...

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Microsoft is usually eager to release updates to its products. I have been seeing Vista SP2 news and downloadable links all over the internets. Release Candidates have been around for a while now but I never got any of them because I didn’t want to spend an hour or so...

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I’ve had a bit of reprieve from work here and I finally got some time to install Windows 7 on my laptop. Though my desktop has had the latest builds available to me, they have all been on a test drive. My laptop however had to wait until I was...

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I got my hands on Windows 7 Build 7077 to take it for a spin. I’ve had Windows 7 discs and keys around for a couple of months now but I never really got time to install them. Finally, I set up the latest build a couple of nights ago....

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Earlier today at CES 2009, Microsoft announced that they would release 2.5 million copies of Windows 7 for public beta (build 7000) which came out around 25th December, 2008 for all those lucky people who have MSDN subscriptions. The plan was to release the ISO around 12 CET and a...

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So finally I got bugged with UAC enough to switch it off a few weeks back. Not all of it though. Just the module for approval from an admin and the elevation without prompting. Here is how you can do it. Click Start > Type “local” and enter (to open...

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I had to reinstall vista once and so vista copied its already existing files into Windows.old like any other decent OS does. This was of course a move to help me keep the data I already had in C drive at that time. Now that my work with it was...

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I’m on Windows Vista Ultimate right now and here is what I feel. Its a really good OS since it performs quite well if you have a good box like mine (good being an understatement to most). But the problem is its extremely freakishly irritating rights system. I haven’t really...

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