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Have you ever wanted more than one window open for PowerPoint or Excel? Say you want to be able to compare 2 charts or presentations side-by-side. I have a system with 2 monitors and it would be very helpful to be able to have 2 windows. Most of the online help says to open the [...]  Something that I have needed for a while while working with Windows. Most of the systems I have include cygwin so until now I had not really needed a windows grep equivalent. The built in windows command FindStr mirrors the capabilities of the Unix command Grep. Findstr /? FINDSTR [/B] [/E] [/L] [/R] [/S] [/I] [...] Batch renaming file extensions – Tech Support Guy Forums. Boy I really miss Unix sometimes. Things that are so super easy in Unix/Linux are often a total pain in the butt in the Windows world. I needed a script to gracefully shutdown and startup an application when the server was rebooted. Again, not an issue so much with linux as you almost never HAVE [...] Thought I would throw out some information on creating links in Windows now that this is the second time I had to go and look the information up. First, there is the “SUBST” command. This command comes with the OS. Of course I am talking XP and Windows 2003. I would assume it’s still available [...] I hate to admit on a Unix admin type Blog that I have been recently forced to work in the Windows OS world. Thankfully I have been able to place Cygwin on most of the systems that I support. I have, however, needed to be able to create a few batch files that would run [...] My journey on setting up a Media Center PC on a Acer Aspire 1600. Tigerdirect had a great sale on the units so I purchased one and a Gyrus Universal Media Center Remote. From some message boards I read up on I also purchased the extra 1GB of ram for the Acer, so that 1080p [...] Notepad++ has become my favorite editor when coding PHP or XML. It just has so many useful little features. You can have all of the documents you need opened in one window and separated with tabs. You can have a 2nd workspace hidden within the same window, which is great when you are updating some [...] While browsing the web the other day and I was in the midst of entering a search term when an odd little window unexpectedly popped up. It was titled “Ruler”, and offered some options to check, such as “Snap to X/Y axis” and “Hide Tick marks.” I found that my keyboard was no longer responding, [...] There is a ton of software a new business sometimes feels that they must purchase right when they are starting off a new business. There Word, Excel, and Powerpoint from Micro$soft that are usually very expensive. There is also money management software, project planning software, and graphic software. Well there is a solution for small [...] |
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