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Look up an error message for Microsoft

July 1, 2012 1 min read

Bookmarked. http://support.microsoft.com/gp/errormessage Great site to perform searches of some of the more cryptic errors I’ve seen in Windows.

DOS Batch Date String Manipulation

June 12, 2012 1 min read

Why do people make this so hard?  I see huge scripts on the internet dedicated to just this topic of parsing the date.  Here, it's this simple: First,…

Windows Server 2012 Weekend Reading…

June 7, 2012 1 min read

Interested in the next Windows Server release?  Windows Server 2012 RC is available for download as well as an ebook (PDF) introduction to Windows Server 2012 and a…

How to Search PDF Files on Windows 7

June 7, 2012 2 min read

Have a lot of PDF files that you wish you could quickly search through for a keyword/phrase directly from Windows? Well, I do -- everything from Guides, Howtos,…

ToolTip: Microsoft Download Manager

June 5, 2012 1 min read

The Microsoft Download Manager enables you to download files simply and easily. It also makes downloading large files such as application and multimedia files quick and reliable.

Parse CSV with Batch Script

May 30, 2012 1 min read

Here's a basic method of parsing a CSV file using Microsoft Batch. The following code will allow me to use all the CSV fields. Let's suppose the CSV…

Server 2008 R2 Performance Tuning

May 18, 2012 2 min read

Here's some of the things I do to a new Server 2008 R2 install (physical and/or virtual settings are mixed in; (VIRTUAL ONLY) specifies I only do configuration…

ToolTip: TMNetSim Network Simulator

May 9, 2012 1 min read

Found another neat tool yesterday when I was looking for a quick way to show co-workers the effects of high-latency WAN networks (DSL/ATM). Enter: TMNetSimulator PC Platform software…

Get CPU Usage of a Process from Command Line

May 9, 2012 2 min read

Here's some kung-fu command-line that I hacked up this morning while brainstorming a few issues I had come across. Basically, I needed to figure out how to keep…