Category: Windows Technologies

For starters here is a good resource center http://www.nwnetworks.com/ http://www.nwnetworks.com/mscslinks.htm I’ll share more knowledge as I get some time…  

I’ve seen many people type their regular commands every time in Windows despite the there are various simple tips which can simply avoid all the typing for you.  Here is a one of the way I use: Create a list of zero files with all your favorite often used commands  like services, appwiz, compmgmt, etc,. C:>echo > compmgmt C:> Create cmd and set it to ‘cd’ to a folder where C:>reg query “HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftCommand Processor” /v Autorun HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftCommand Processor Autorun    REG_SZ    title G && cd C:> Then simply type the first letter of your command followed by tab for Windows to […]

this is a simple productivity tip to ease accessing/invoking your favorite application at right click of context menu in a Windows shell. In this example I am adding a context menu (menu that appears when you right click on any file in Windows) called “Edit with Notepad2” Syntax: [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT*shell] (this hive should be already existing, add JIC if it’s missing) [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT*shell<Context menu name>] [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT*shell<Context menu name>command] @=”<path to application you want to invoke> “%1″” Example: [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT*shell] [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT*shellEdit with Notepad2] [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT*shellEdit with Notepad2command] @=””C:\Tools\Bin\Notepad2.exe” “%1″” To ease importing these keys here Edit_With_Notepad2_Context_Menu_Integration is a Win Reg file. Rename it to .reg […]