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I have an external hard drive that is starting to fail; it has some bad sectors. It’s a 1 TB Fujitsu Siemens case with a Western Digital hard drive inside. Eventually I will backup the whole drive with some backup/imaging software, but I don’t have the free space to do that. At the moment I want…
Is it possible to have a slightly transparent command prompt window in Vista or Windows 7? Are they any 3rd party alternatives? Solution: I like Console, It supports transparency as well as tabbed command prompts.
Is there a way to see a list of all the symbolic links that are active on a Windows machine? I have accepted @JoachimOtahal’s answer as it works within a single second and I think provided what I needed when the questionw as asked. Former accepted answer wrapped in timing code: C:WindowsSystem32> cmd /E /C…
Is there a way to run a VNC session while the screen is “locked” on windows? I want to start a VNC server on a windows box, lock the screen (so that no one locally can access it), and then later connect to that box with VNC. I’d prefer the native windows locking, but any…
I am working with batch files in Windows, using both Notepad, and Notepad++. When I run the batch files, which all start with @echo off, I see the first line (when running on two separate machines) reading ´╗┐@echo off, and then all the REM lines below it appear as well. I have tried changing the…
Based on the question: How to make using command prompt less painful, what are the . and .. entries in the most voted answer? I see it when I do a dir command but it isn’t visible to the user in the form of a file. In case you dont know what I mean here’s…
What are Thumbs.db files for? I’ve seen them mostly in picture folders. Wherever pictures like icons and wallpapers are located, a Thumbs.db is automatically generated. I’ve deleted them many times, but they just appear again after some time. I initially thought that these files were related to a virus, but they are not because my…
On all Windows machines there seem to be a number of svchost.exe processes running. What do this processes do and why are so many running? Solution: I’ve written a lengthy explanation of what this process is, and how to figure out what each one of them does. The bottom line is that svchost is a…
I can’t get a good definition of the difference between a normal RDP session and the /console (/admin in Windows 2008 and later) session. What can I do in console that I can’t do in a regular session? Solution: The console session is what you see when you look at a monitor that’s…
http://imgur.com/M3sni When booting up Windows, why would it say “Start Wandows Ngrmadly”, instead of “Start Windows Normally”? I tried googling for an explanation, but came across too many hits of people merely ROFLing at it. Solution: This looks a lot like a memory issue (or at least a glitch, since it doesn’t repeat everywhere), a…
