I am sure you have noticed that when you already have a spreadsheet open and you open another via Windows Explorer it opens in the same instance of Excel. How great would it be to have each spreadsheet open in it’s own instance (multi monitors anyone?). Well you can and it’s easy to do. Just […]

I have found and used a nice little application to edit sounds and make ringtones. It’s called WavePad Sound Editor. A full featured professional audio editor for Windows or Mac OS X. It lets you make and edit music, voice and other audio recordings. When editing audio files you can cut, copy and paste parts […]

IE7Pro is a must have add-on for Internet Explorer, which includes a lot of features and tweaks to make your IE friendlier, more useful, secure and customizable. IE7Pro includes Tabbed Browsing Management, Spell Check, Inline Search, Super Drag Drop, Crash Recovery, Proxy Switcher, Mouse Gesture, Tab History Browser, Web Accelerator, User Agent Switcher, Webpage Capturer, […]

There are only 2 users allowed for administration so occasionally both are used up and you can’t access the server.  This may happen if two people are legitimately using the servers or if someone forgot to log off. You would think this would be as easy as connecting to the remote server by adding the […]

Robocopy GUI also extends the functionality of the existing Robocopy tool in some very interesting ways. For example, this tool is multithreaded, allowing you to create a Robocopy script, execute it, and begin creating another one while your first script is still running. It also allows you to save your scripts (even if you don’t […]

I am sure many of you have had a drive, especially a very large one, that you did not want to have chkdsk run on when restarting a server. If so you can use the command below to disable it from occurring at boot up on a per drive basis. chkntfs /x c: (where c: […]

Sometimes we may want to remove a few unwanted items from “New” menu or we may want to add a few necessary items to “New” menu which are not present. So here is how you can add / remove items to / from “New” menu (Thanks to AskVG.com for this info!) :

Try running Driftnet on a machine in public view and list the IP addresses of the hosts. Inspired by EtherPEG, Driftnet is a program which listens to network traffic and picks out images from TCP streams it observes. Fun to run on a host which sees lots of web traffic. You can get it here!

Keeping with some of the AD commands I have added recently I have a couple more for ya. You can use rsop.msc (Resultant Set Of Policy) or GPresult to find out what policies are actually applied to the machine you are on.

With the new Terminal Services client version 6 you can use multiple monitors but it doesn’t handle it very well. This is where a great utility called Splitview comes in. It supports multiple monitors as well as wide-screens with remote desktop. Give it a try! Update – Here is a link to the Microsoft Technet site […]