DOS Tricks: Creating File From DOS / CMD Command Line…

January 12th, 2004 Creating link files are necessary for allowing users to easily execute Java programs on windows Sample VB code to create link files is in http://wss.hypermart.net/vb/shortcut.html Another option (simpler for the programmer) may be to just create a batch file (.bat) file which the users double-click to run the application (same as a lnk file). Creating it is much simpler.

December 25th, 2008 This is a very important trick for Windows users. Though its fairly old still I thought of putting it up finally in case someone needs to copy the outputs of the DOS he is working on.

January 7th, 2009 How about a simple trick that hides a file in an image? Yes I will give you a simple tip which will hide a file inside an image. So much so that the image file will be a JPEG, look and act like a JPEG too.

January 19th, 2009 XP has some popular power toys that makes it ace. More often than not you must have used the Open Command Prompt Here in XP.

August 7th, 2006 I will provide a simple utility for you to shutdown and power-off Microsoft windows. You can also configure it to shutdown on any keystroke combination.

September 19th, 2008 Windows XP, arguably the world's most popular operating system, still has lots of tricks up its sleeve. Today I will show you some hidden rooms, some unknown corners in this column that you never knew existed but wanted to.

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.

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.

January 7th, 2009 Cmd or command prompt in Windows have been one of the very places in Windows where you can get things done by your way. Now the main problem is we don't get to know about all the commands we should to help ourselves.

February 10th, 2009 problems may be very silly as they come but it gets increasingly difficult to handle them if you don't know the easy way out. Just the other day my friend was scratching his head out to know the last time when his Winserver was last booted.

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

August 30th, 2008 Here are few tips (with undocumented features) to help you export huge MS Access database (production database with real data) to MySQL. Use mdbtools utilities as described below: mdb-tables displays the list of tables in MS Access mdb-scheme export the MS Access schema to MySQL database.

July 31st, 2007 HSQLDB is a high performance RDBMS written in pure Java. It can be used as a in-memory database or regular file based database.

November 16th, 2006 When MS DTC fails to start and you get an error like: "The Distributed Transaction Coordinator service terminated with service-specific error 3221229584 (0xC0001010)." You know you are in trouble. Fortunately there is a simple solution.

February 12th, 2009 You can never be happy with a first draft of Windows. It will invariably contain bugs, unnecessary things piled up at one corner, necessary parts missing and all such possibilities which scare an user.