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Join Two Text Files Together From A Command Prompt

July 13th, 2007

No third party utilities required.

Merge two file names ( may.csv and may1.csv ) into a new file called may2.csv, use the following from a command window:

copy/b may.csv +may1.csv may2.csv <Enter>

How do I merge or join files from the command line?

Weekend Warrior, Windows

Mount A Stored DVD Image From Your Hard Drive

July 11th, 2007

Alcohol 52 is emulation software allowing users to play CDs DVDs without the need for the physical disc. Notebook users and PC Game players would benefit the most from Alcohol 52%. It supports 25 plus languages and can handle up to 6 virtual CD DVD-ROM drives, all at once. The reading speed of a virtual CD-ROM is 200X.

Example use: Trying to install the Windows Vista Automated Installation Kit to access the Windows PE utilities. This WAIK download saved to a hard disk is stored as vista_6000.16386.061101-2205-LRMAIK_EN.img (note the .img file extension). Mount the WAIK image via the Alcohol 52 interface.

Alcohol 52% Free Edition

Weekend Warrior, Windows

Windows XP – Fat32 Windows Partition Size

July 3rd, 2007

Have a 40GB external USB drive you’re trying to use with Ghost? If you format the external drive with the XP formatting tool, the maximum size XP will format it to is 32 GB. To format the drive to a full 40 GB, use Windows 98 or ME formatting tools — yes that means booting into one of those operating systems.

From a XP command prompt type:

format X:/fs:fat32

Weekend Warrior, Windows

Free Windows XP Defrag Utility JkDefrag v3.16

June 25th, 2007

Free (released under the GNU General Public License) disk defragment and optimize utility for Windows 2000/2003/XP/Vista/X64. Completely automatic and very easy to use, fast, low overhead, with several optimization strategies, and can handle floppies and USB disks/sticks. Included are a Windows version, a commandline version (for scheduling by the task scheduler or for use from administrator scripts), a screensaver version, a DLL library (for use from programming languages), and versions for Windows X64.

JkDefrag v3.16

Weekend Warrior, Windows

Windows XP Retrieve Accidentally Deleted Files

June 24th, 2007

Undelete Plus is a quick and effective way to retrieve accidentally deleted files, NTFS files, files removed from the Recycle Bin, in a DOS window, from a network drive, from Windows Explorer with the SHIFT key held down. Free utility software that does not have to be “installed” before using.
Undelete Plus. Free file recovery software. Retrieve accidentally deleted files

Weekend Warrior, Windows

Netmeeting Built Into Windows XP

June 21st, 2007

Windows NetMeeting is already installed but hidden on your Windows XP computer.

  • From the -> Start button, select -> Run…
  • In the run field, type -> CONF and press -> OK.

Weekend Warrior

What Group Policies Have Been Applied?

June 20th, 2007

In Windows XP or Windows 2003, open an entire command window and type -> GPUpdate <enter>. All of the current policy settings affecting your computer (or server) and your account are displayed.

You can also see a history of the application of group policies by inspecting the registry.

To inspect the group policies applied to your local computer, use Regedt32 to navigate to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Group Policy\History

To inspect the group policies applied to your account, navigate to:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Group Policy\History

Each sub-key represents an installed Group Policy Extension and each Group Policy Object is a subkey numbered from 0, the first GPO applied.

JSI Tip 2487. What group policies have been applied?

Active Directory, Group Policy, Weekend Warrior, Windows

Overcoming The 4,095 MB Paging File Size Limit In Windows

June 20th, 2007

To get a complete memory dump from computers that have 4 GB RAM or more, it is still necessary to use the /MAXMEM switch in the Boot.ini file. One of the page files on the system partition must still be 1 MB larger than the amount of RAM installed in the computer to successfully create a memory dump.

How to overcome the 4,095 MB paging file size limit in Windows

Weekend Warrior, Windows

Add Or Remove An Administrative Template

June 20th, 2007

Simple Microsoft how-to to install an .adm file in your GPO.

Add or remove an Administrative Template (.adm file)

Weekend Warrior, Windows

Get Mom and Dad Inexpensive DSL – $10 month

June 20th, 2007

AT&T finally is delivering on the $10 month DSL pricing it promised when it gobbled up Bellsouth this year.

$10 month buys 768 Kbps down and 128 Kbps up speeds and this price lasts for 30 months when you sign up as a new DSL customer.

$15 month buys 768 Kbps down and 384 Kbps up speeds and this price has no expiration.

http://tinyurl.com/ypuwzx

Hey, it’s faster than dial-up…

Weekend Warrior