Update 16-Mar-10. Forfiles command line updated to show @file instead of @path; testing and working. Update 02-Aug-10. Download location for ForFiles changed since Microsoft CodePlex page has been removed. I needed a simple and free backup program for a single…
Just finished the February 2010 issue of PC World. They had an article called “The State Of Windows 7 Satisfaction” about early adopters of Windows 7 and their general feedback about installation and features. Information was gathered from 615 people…
Picked up a Super Micro P8SCT motherboard for practically nothing and had it sitting in my pile of spare components for a few years. I recently decided to set up a new Windows Home Server and wanted to press this…
I came across two new online book sellers, or at least new to me. The Book Depository ships the items from their warehouse in Gloucester, United Kingdom within 48 hours free worldwide. Their prices are comparable to Amazon and with…
Steam is a great service: log in on any PC and play the games you’ve paid for. The only downside is the download; modern games are between one and five gigabytes, which makes for a long download. Or after you…
A friend recently had some PC issues so I volunteered to reload their PC. They had Windows XP Home and used the PC for web surfing and email so I wiped the drive and installed XP Home with Service Pack…
Sometime in 2006 I started using Gmail. I had been an ardent Outlook user until that point for two reasons: I knew the product and all the mail was kept in one PST file that could be easily moved around…
I was working on a PC that had a multifunction printer: the user was scanning to email via Samsung’s MFP utility but it was opening Outlook Express instead of the default email client Thunderbird. Since Outlook Express had never been…
After working with FreeNAS as a free storage solution for small businesses I came across Lime Technologies unRAID, which takes a completely different approach to storage. It’s a software RAID type solution that uses your largest disk as a parity…