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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 under the impression that plugging the drive into the same USB port all the time will keep the same DEV_ID (correct me if…
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. The problem is that when I resize partitons I obtain: 12Gb Primary Partition (ntfs)110Gb Extended Partition (ntfs) 30Gb Free Space So I can’t…
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 size. Would I be able to restore this image on a larger hard drive? I plan buying a 1TB hard drive. If yes,…
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 that, I’m looking for something cleaner. I’ve found a solution that uses VBScript, but I don’t really like using VBS, either. Solution: Solution…
how i can run this command from cmd : powershell.exe “(get-process | ? {$_.Description -eq “Sysinter Process Explorer”}) | select processname | out-file $env:APPDATAexample.txt” i still get this error : You must provide a value expression on the right-hand side of the ‘-eq’ operato r. At line:1 char:37 + (get-process | ? {$_.Description…
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 .txt, .sql, .xls, .doc, .r, .c, etc.). It should handle multiple files in multiple folders/subfolders. Just searching the file contents is not enough…
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 software. How can I securely wipe the hard drive so that the data on it cannot be recovered? Although I specifically want help…
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, even opening an application that uses the Nvidia GPU (before it even fully loads) causes the machine to throttle down and the fan…
I know it has been discussed that it is not possible to start an application from an usb drive upon connection due to limitations of autorun (or autoplay??) in Win 7. But it is possible to create a scheduled task having an event type trigger. Surely there must be an event occurring when the drive…
Because there’s no sudo command in Cygwin, scripts that I want to run fail with ./install.sh: line N: sudo: command not found What’s the standard way for getting around this? Editing the scripts to remove sudo? Getting some sudo-like tool for Windows? Solution: I wrote the (rather simple) TOUACExt for SUDO for CygWin, a pre-beta…
