Creating link files (.lnk ) files in windows

June 15th, 2006 How can you recursively delete files and directories in windows? You can select them in explorer (in windows) and delete it, right? The problem with the explorer approach is that if one or more files and / or directories cannot be deleted then the whole process fails. Try cleaning your Local Settings\temp directory to see an example.

June 23rd, 2008 While running some Java applications (like Thinreader) you may see this strange looking error - Couldn't find per display information. You may find this error when running such applications in JDK 6 or later.

July 12th, 2008 In Linux wine (or crossover office if you like to pay) is used to execute Windows applications. wine normally open exe files only.

June 6th, 2009 Microsoft had introduced a new free email and newsgroup client in Windows Vista, Windows Mail. It succeeded Microsoft's long grown Outlook Express.

August 30th, 2007 By default, Windows Vista uses Live File System to incrementally add files to your CD. Live File System is a file storage system that can be used to create CDs and DVDs.

October 25th, 2006 Often you have files in your subversion directiory which you do not want to commit / check-in. Such files could be compiled files, intermediate files used for data processing etc.

January 12th, 2009 Wait a minute music-aficionados! If you are planning to download beta version of Windows 7 awaiting a grand release - look before you leap. Do you know the beta of Windows 7 may remove the first few seconds of any mp3 file added to your Windows Media Player? Now, if you are willing to learn a solution, here's the key to it.

June 23rd, 2007 In directories under subversion there may be files which you do not want to add to subversion. Normally such files would show in subversion status (svn stat) with ? in front of them.

February 13th, 2007 My desktop computers hard-disk crashed today morning without any warning. The S.M.A.R.T.

August 26th, 2006 FairUse4WM can be used to strip Windows Media DRM 10 and 11 (i.e. PlaysForSure, but not WM DRM 9).

April 10th, 2006 Hardlinks and symbolic links are common to Unix / Linux / Solaris file systems. However they are not normally available under windows.

March 22nd, 2008 PHP files are scripts which are interpreted by php interpreter (php.exe in windows). Converting them to exe files makes it easy to distribute PHP applications to Windows users.

August 19th, 2008 Apache Ant is an excellent and popular Java based build system. It has several built-in commands (tasks in Ant lingo) one of which allows you to create Jar file from your existing class file and resources.

April 22nd, 2009 For those who have always imputed Windows Vista for its anomalies, may also denounce it's security features. Well, it must have occurred to you that when you are tying to move or delete some files, Windows clogs you with an error.

August 25th, 2009 Windows registry is a central hierarchical database containing information necessary to configure the system for users, applications and hardware devices. The registry keeps growing when you use Windows.