Use WinSCP commandline to copy from Windows to Linux
WinSCP is a great Windows GUI utility to copy files to and from Linux boxes, but many don’t know about the powerful WinSCP commandline functionality that are extremely useful to…
Tag: Windows
Why is Hard Drive space steadily decreasing
If you have had an issue with hard drive space steadily decreasing and many of you have, the issue may not be files at all. In fact, in many cases…
Easy ways to get to Windows Task Manager
Let’s face it, from time to time, we just need to get to task manager and kill an application or get a quick look at system resources. There are many…
How to show information about your computer on your Windows Desktop
There is a really great utility that is devloped by Sysinternals that allows you to present a custom Windows background that can show you all kinds of information about your…
Windows ADK DISM commands to capture and apply images
With the introduction of the new Accessment and Deployment Kit for Windows 8 which is the new iteration of what we have known as the WAIK for automating installs, Microsoft…
How to map a network drive using the IPV6 address in Windows
So in case you were wondering why we haven’t rapidly adopted IP version 6, then you may not have tried to map a network drive to an IPV6 address as…
How to add an ODBC entry Windows 7
ODBC (Open Database Connectivity) is the mediator between a workstation and server that allows the establishing and “talking” to a database. ODBC configuration utility in Windows 7 allows one to…
Windows Server 2012 still missing the shared folder icon
One of the misnomers of Windows Server 2008 R2 that gave admins fits is the lack of any type of shared folder designation. If you have a folder with several hundred…
Local port printers vs network printers windows 7
Many get confused when it comes to printer setup on Windows 7 machines and which type of printer they need to setup to the workstation or which type of port…
Windows 7 Malware Cleanup with Roaming Profiles
We have covered this situation before with malware and profiles in a different post. However, we thought it good to cover this topic again since in a roaming profile environment,…