The ease, convenience, and speediness of e-mail has resulted in a massive quantity of these messages making their way through the tubes each day. In order to get yours noticed, you need to follow some simple guidelines that will make this means of communication efficient and understandable. Just because e-mail is similar to Instant Messaging and is the same medium used to talk … [Read more...]
User Profile Hive Cleanup Service – Fixing log off problems
If you're frequently seeing a lot of warnings in your Application event log with this error message: "Windows saved user [user name] registry while an application or service was still using the registry during log off. The memory used by the user's registry has not been freed. The registry will be unloaded when it is no longer in use. This is often caused by services running as … [Read more...]
Unlocker – Trace ‘in use’ files to the process
If upon trying to delete, move, or open a file you get an error message about it being in use, you can try to close programs and kill processes that you think are using the file. "Cannot delete file: It is being used by another person or program. Close any programs that might be using the file and try again." You can use Process Explorer to track down the process, but an even … [Read more...]
Managing your Digital Identity
Few people will think about their digital identity when they consider their public exposure. The purpose of this post is not to make you paranoid, but to make you aware of the information that is out there. As we saw recently with Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin's Yahoo e-mail account getting broken into, one must fully understand and manage their digital identity for security … [Read more...]
Advanced Batch Scripting
I'd like to share four utilities that can improve your batch (DOS) scripting by making them more user-friendly, more versatile, and more dynamic. With these tools, you'll gain a variety of abilities that allows you to do more with batch scripting and make your utilities more polished/enjoyable to the end users. The four utilities are: Sleep, BATtoEXE, CHP (Create Hidden … [Read more...]