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Thursday, May 29, 2008 11:20 PM

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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Monday, May 26, 2008 9:42 PM

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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Monday, May 19, 2008 4:15 PM

Elevator - command line

If you tried elevator , you probably know that it is running thought context menu: It is assigned only to exe files (if it is needed, I can extend it)... But sometimes you may want to change shortcut to always run specific action using elevator. In fact...
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Saturday, May 17, 2008 10:32 PM

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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Thursday, May 15, 2008 11:29 AM

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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Wednesday, May 14, 2008 7:26 PM

Another nasty Robocopy bug

Recently I wrote about bug I found in Robocopy - one of my favorite utilities... And today I found another one. I am using robocopy for synchronization - which is VERY important part of our framework (if nothing is synchronized, nothing can be executed...
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008 1:43 PM

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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Saturday, May 10, 2008 10:23 AM

New (simple) tool - SimpleScheduler

I run into simple problem - I needed some (very basic) implementation of scheduled tasks. Scheduled tasks that are built-in to windows are not my best friend - problem is that (before Windows Vista, here they are completely different beast) it was not...
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Thursday, March 27, 2008 11:09 AM

Useful tools for scripts

One of my favorites are from SST (Shell Scripting Toolkit) from Bill Stewart ( http://www.westmesatech.com/ ), but I dont understand why they are not really known in community. So I decided to post a little bit about them, maybe someone could be interested...
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Monday, March 24, 2008 10:44 PM

How to synchronize data between computers over Internet

Recently I wrote about my new shiny desktop (we all know that after few months it will be old junk ;))... I want to use this computer for work mostly, for developement, testing etc... For that reason, I would like to synchronize some data between different...
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Monday, March 17, 2008 9:20 AM

Specify default process priority and CPU affinity for some processes

Well, you already run into similar problem before - you have one process that you want (must) run at background all the time, but it is decreasing responsiveness of your whole system. So you assign it lower priority (Idle\Below Normal), but after reboot...
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Tuesday, March 04, 2008 10:00 PM

Use one card to connect to multiple WiFi networks at once

Well, this is probably most descriptive %subject% I ever wrote ;) Problem is quite simple - can you use one Wifi card to connect to multiple hotspots?? If you think about it, possibilities are quite interesting - and it is possible using VirtualWiFi....
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Monday, March 03, 2008 8:34 PM

Ugly bug in Robocopy - ignoring security on file level

I really like RoboCopy (robust file copy) utility from Microsoft - if you dont know this tool (I would be surprised), it adds tons of features to standart Copy command - and probably the most useful is /MIR (mirror) that creates mirror of source folder...
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Sunday, February 17, 2008 12:30 AM

New utility to detect COM objects

If you are deployment specialist or responsible for deploying applications AND keeping computers running afterwards, I think you agree that you always want to know what will installer do - therefore you prefer to use copy and paste installations... Even...
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Friday, February 15, 2008 10:43 AM

FileMon, RegMon... What about LibMon?

Recently I wrote small article about DLL Hell problem ( http://msmvps.com/blogs/martinzugec/archive/2007/11/11/dll-help-is-there-any-solution.aspx ). Maybe you were also experiencing similar problems and you tried to use some tools to troubleshoot - best...
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Tuesday, January 29, 2008 7:47 PM

HookApplication technology preview

Hi all, maybe you was watching my HookApplication project - just to remind you, HookApplication allows you to hook your specific actions to any process. Some blog posts I wrote are here: http://msmvps.com/blogs/martinzugec/archive/2007/03/01/hookapplication...
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Friday, January 11, 2008 9:34 PM

Quick access to start menu - and much more!

Real man dont click - and I take it seriously :) I really prefer to use my keyboard - well, most people that write lot of scripts or are programming prefers the same. There are however some tasks where it is prefered to use mouse - for example start menu...
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