Game booster – improving Windows performance for gaming.
DaleI’m not a ““Gamer””, but I think this would be a really useful little program for when you want to extract more “grunt” from your Windows PC. For gaming, or…
Discovering what hotfixes are on your PC, via WMI
There are several ways to list what hotfixes are on your PC, such as looking in the registry, running MBSA, or visiting the Windows Update site. An easier way is…
I don’t know how they got a TAB into the filename,
but they did. Had a report from a user of LNME, that LNME was producing an error message, then crashing. The cause that an message attachment had a TAB character…
Patching off-network PCs with AutoPatcher
One of the cleverest guys I’ve ever worked with, came up with a idea to provide patch updates on compact disc. It allowed our home office users to pickup a…
Counting lines of VB6 code.
Was asked to analyse a library of Visual Basic 6 to determine the effort required to migrate it Visual Basic 2005/2008. The good news was that most of the VB6…
Auslogics Disk Defrag – a 5 minute review.
Does not defragment removable drives, even though Windows built-in defragger does. No choice to do an Analyse first, it was straight into Defrag. No PC slowdown noticed. Does a through…
Checking that the weblinks are working.
I use a small program called Xenu’s Link Sleuth. Which looks at all blog posts, grabs the links I’ve mentioned, and then check that they still exist. Or to put…
LastPass does form filling!
It was an article from Jesper Johansson* which finally got me using LastPass as a password manager. I use LastPass* for most of my web logons. This is why: each…
Programming Lotus Notes with Visual Basic – much is wrong.
Much of what is out there is plain wrong, which is not surprising. Of the stuff which does work, it’s poorly documented. That does not surprise either. Here are a…
How to determine what OU your PC is in.
dsquery computer -name PCNAME - where PCNAME is the name of your computer. Or, go visit Joeware and grab the AdFind tool.