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Are there any solutions to prevent applications stealing focus from the active window? This is especially annoying when I’m starting an application, switch to do something else and the new application starts … Windows – Preventing applications from stealing focusRead more

I use Windows at work and a Mac at home. One of the biggest issues is the difference between the copy paste shortcuts on Windows vs the Mac i.e. Ctrl + C … Windows – Remap Copy and Paste shortcuts on a MacRead more

I’m constructing a backup script for Windows 7, and the last action I want it to perform is to safely “remove” the USB drive that it is backing up to. I am … Windows – Remove USB device from command lineRead more

I have a hard drive with the folowing partition table 12Gb Primary Partition (ntfs)140Gb Extended Partition (ntfs) I want to install Windows 7 and I need more space for the Primary Partition. … Windows – Resize primary partitionRead more

I want to transfer my current system hard drive to a larger hard drive. Doing so, I thought of creating an image of my system hard drive which is 320 GB in … Windows – restore a smaller hard drive 320GB image to a larger harddrive 1TBRead more

I’m looking for some way to run a batch file (.bat) without anything visible to the user (no window, no taskbar name, .etc..). I don’t want to use some program to do … Windows – Run a batch file in a completely hidden wayRead more

how i can run this command from cmd :   powershell.exe “(get-process | ? {$_.Description -eq  “Sysinter Process Explorer”}) | select processname | out-file  $env:APPDATAexample.txt” i still get this error :   … Windows – run powershell command from cmdRead more

I’m looking for a tool which can search/replace within file contents for a broad range of file types (i.e. it should, if possible,  process the maximum possible number of file types like … Windows – Search and replace tool that can handle multiple files and subfoldersRead more

I am about to sell my old desktop PC and I am cautious about some of my sensitive information being available to the purchaser, even after reformatting the hard-drive, using data recovery … Windows – Securely erasing all data from a hard driveRead more

I have a Lenovo T480 with an Intel i7-8650U, which has the notorious problem of dropping itself down to 400 MHz whenever it feels like it, due to power limits.  For example, … Windows – Setting max CPU clock rate while in TurboboostRead more