For many who’ve tried or moved entirely to using Microsoft Edge as their browser, the New Window or New Tab command result in a noisy mess of “news,” ads, and other visual clutter that’s really not wanted. To clean up your new tabs or windows, Open Microsoft Edge then paste this URL to the address […]
Category: MS Windows
grep, in PowerShell
Here is a sample of a PowerShell script that I use for finding text in files, having “grown up” with a more Unix-like syntax. I know, this isn’t exactly a clone of grep‘s functionality, but it gets me closer than having to remember exactly how to wrangle PowerShell’s Select-String commands to my liking. Note that […]
Enabling FTP Server on Windows 10
Almost every article “out there” on setting up an FTP Server on Windows 10 starts with using the “Windows key + X keyboard shortcut to open the Power User control panel” – which doesn’t seem to work/exist on my computer – or to some “Administrative Tools” control panel applet – which also doesn’t exist here. […]
Searching Evernote
I use Evernote. A lot. I’d consider it to be a backup for my brain, except that often it’s more like the primary storage instead of backup. Recipes, lists of books, notes on projects, and much more gets dumped into Evernote for future reference. Of course, reference requires good methods for browsing and searching. The […]
Too Many Choices…
I need a new computer, one that I can use for C# and ASP.NET develoment. Over in the Mac world, choosing a new computer — like so many other Mac things — is easy. If you want a laptop there are basicly six choices. Good, Better and Best, as Sears used to say. In the […]
A couple of Windows and Exchange Links
del.icio.us and my blog were doing some wacky things this weekend (apparently I had different browsers posting to different del.icio.us accounts), but here are a few posts for you… Admin Rights As much as the common security advice is not to run as Admin, there are a number of tools that simply don’t work without […]
RDP Fun with Vista
Trying to use Remote Desktop (RDP) to connect from a Windows Vista system to a non-Vista system can be challenging: Remote Desktop cannot verify the identity of the computer you want to connect to. My buddy Allen has a solution for that. Everybody say “thanks, dude!”
Spyware Cleanup
Mike McB’s Spyware Cleanup is a good series to read through, to learn just how messed up a Windows system can get and some of the tools to use when (not if) you’re in the same situation. Mike, you’ve got more patience than I do. When I was shown the family PC in similar condition […]
A Clean PC is a Happy PC.
While you’re waiting for the shuttle launch, which apparently now won’t happen until at least Friday morning, take a few minutes to save yourself some time and frustration – go through Tweak3D’ Windows XP 15 Minute Tune-Up: Don’t throw out that old PC yet! A fine-tuned Windows XP PC can run quite fast even it’s […]
Speaking of Operating Systems…
Vista, Vista, Vista. The folks at Microsoft are working hard and it’ll be delivered soon, so people are starting to wonder what they’ll need. Byte.com’s Peter Hagopian provides some answers.