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How can I make command aliases in Windows’ Command Prompt like I would with bash? I found out about doskey in a forum thread, so I can do something like: doskey ls=dir /b …and now the command ls acts a little more like ls on Unix.  (I type ls so often in cmd, it isn’t […]

How can I control the mouse pointer with keyboard (e.g. with arrow keys) on Windows OS? Some computers I use have mice with bad sensitivity, so I sometimes need to have more precise mouse controls. Note: I’m using Windows 7 personally but the computers I handle have different versions of Windows (2000, XP, Vista). Solution:

I am trying to copy files to my external hard drive using PartedMagic. My computer won’t boot, so we are sending it in to get repaired. I’ve tried EVERYTHING but can’t get it to boot into any desktop or recovery environment. What I am able to do is boot to a PartedMagic command line (Using

I’m not sure if I’ll be to explain this right. I have a dual monitor display on Windows 7 and my left monitor (laptop) has a lower vertical resolution than the right monitor (regular LCD monitor). So obviously, if I stick these monitors together, there’s a part in the upper-left corner of my LCD monitor

I own, an about a year old, rig which carries quite the punch. And for a year, I was happy. Not that long ago things began to crumble. I first detected the problems running my dual monitor setup. For some reason, tearing and artifacts are appearing when I run with two monitors plugged in my

When typing on the keyboard of my Dell laptop, my palm occasionally slips over the trackpad, moving the cursor to another position in the text or putting focus on another window. I’d like to find a way to automatically disable the trackpad when a mouse plugged in. I tried that :Disable trackpad when mouse is

My computer does not store the history of the entries entered in RUN (WIN+R). Thus, how to enable Windows to store the history? Solution: Right-click on taskbar Go to Properties On Properties → Start Menu tab (in Windows 8, it is called Jump Lists) Check Store and display a list of recently opened programs under

Does anybody of a way to access files and directories that have a % in their name (which is valid) from the command-line? Specifically, if there are two %’s and the text between them happens to correspond to an environment variable. For example, if there is a file called C:blah%temp%.txt or a folder called C:Program

I have a PowerPoint presentation where I extensively use simple animations, only appear/disappear effects triggered by the mouse (not time based), without any smooth transitions. Is it possible to export a PDF where every single step of the animation is on a separate slide?. The problem is that, exporting through the save-as menu, each slide in

Here is our current setup: Mac OS X 10.5.8 File server using Mac OS Extended (Journaled) file system. There is a share that is shared over AFP (For Mac desktops) and Samba for (Windows desktops). Here is what is happening: All GFX designers use Mac and create folders/files on the file server over AFP and