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DOS tricks

JohnS — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 22:34:25 +0000

Batch file tricks

current directory of the batch file
%~dp0
cd /d %~dp0
xcopy %~dp0\*.* …

JohnS — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 21:21:26 +0000

Time didn’t automaticaly update so I had to:

net stop w32time
w32tm /unregister
w32tm /register…

JohnS — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:50:47 +0000

Struggled some with purchasing Vista as a download from Microsoft’s online store.

First, of course, …

JohnS — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 00:00:59 +0000

Wireless headset using phone, recorded on the PC

Wireless headset

Speech to text

OCR

Search …

JohnS — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 02:24:46 +0000

Well, the bottom line for today is that the best video conferencing (best meaning easy …

JohnS — Wed, 07 May 2008 06:04:16 +0000

I have been assuming server 2003 won’t allow itself to be both the terminal server …

JohnS — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 07:25:51 +0000

rundll32.exe advapi32.dll,ProcessIdleTasksThe workaround for that is simple: Once every three days, I manually run

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JohnS — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 21:47:53 +0000

What a stupid mess. Damn Microsoft to …

Access 2000 on a workstation wouldn’t access …

JohnS — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 21:55:32 +0000

JohnS — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 06:47:46 +0000

Just unbelievable…you can’t connect a Vista computer to Windows Server 2003 without installing a particular …