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Multiple Powerpoint or Excel Windows

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 [...]

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Grep command for Windows

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] [...]

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Add BAT scripts to Windows Startup

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 [...]

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Creating Links in Windows

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 [...]

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DOS commands / Batch file scripting

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 [...]

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Internet Explorer Ruler (Shift R)

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, [...]

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Open Source Alternatives

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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Exporting Tomcat SSL keys to Apache httpd

Apache Tomcat SSL keys created with keytool are, by default, in der format. These keys cannot be used in Apache httpd since httpd, be default, expects the keys in pem(X509) format. Using the below steps you can export the tomcat’s keys to Apache httpd format and use it for Apache.

I assume that you already [...]

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Killing windows processes from the command line

Use TASKLIST and TASKKILL :  Good web site on this http://commandwindows.com/taskkill.htm

(F)orce Kill running processes for ImageName of java.exe taskkill.exe /F /IM java.exe

NOTE: Wildcard ‘*’ for the /IM switch is accepted only with filters, use /FI taskkill /F /FI “IMAGENAME eq note*”

Find all running Java processes command line tasklist /FI “IMAGENAME eq java.exe”

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Windows Scheduled Task Log Output

I needed to have a script list and kill processes and I needed that script to run out of a scheduled task.

It would be nice to know what happened with the script when it runs early in the morning.

I found  that if you call the script from the Windows Task Scheduler that you [...]

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