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Mon, Jun 16 2008 8:46

Create file with specified size

Yesterday I run into very strange problem with one of my friends - Echo. stopped working. In batch scripts, you use Echo to output something to screen - and of course you can redirect it to file. By using Echo. (mind the dot), you specify that you want...
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Thu, May 29 2008 23:20

Lnk, shortcuts - real disaster??

Maybe you noticed that one of my projects I would like to finish in summer is also offline shortcuts editor - and you probably think "why some editor when I can build shortcuts using Explorer?"... Think twice - it's not as easy as it looks...
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Thu, May 29 2008 10:30

When is storing configuration in Windows directory good idea?

Well, I know this is quite controversial, but in some cases (specially scripting frameworks) I think it is good idea to use Windows directory to store some settings\configuration... Why that? Generally you can always divide such solutions to push or pull...
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Mon, May 26 2008 21:42

SystemSherlockGUI - one package that rules them all ;)

Good news everyone - I just received email from Roger (a.k.a. Kephyr) - he is author of brilliant SystemSherlock. He allowed me to include SystemSherlock in one package with my GUI - so now you can download one package with both GUI and command line interface...
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Sat, May 17 2008 22:32

SystemSherlock - snapshot using GUI or CMD

Recently I wrote about SystemSherlock Lite - really nice snapshoting tool that supports command line... I also posted small utility for parsing log files. After that I started to heavily use SystemSherlock - and I must say that it is really really great...
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Thu, May 15 2008 11:29

Utility to display logs from SystemSherlock Lite

As mentioned in my post about SystemSherlock Lite , I really love this tool after few days... Only problem I had is that it can take some time to realize what really happened - you need to read pretty big log files and you can spend precious time reading...
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Wed, May 14 2008 13:43

Make snapshots of filesystem and registry using command line

Some installers can be very mysterious - this suddenly applies for MSI packages, even using full logging, it is not easy to find out which registry keys or files were modified\deleted\added. If you have application that is using some custom installer...
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