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Windows 7 Start Menu

So where are the Start Menu shortcuts stored?

In XP, C:\Documents and Settings\me\Start Menu was where mine lived, and C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu was where the shortcuts for all lived. It seems to have changed in Vista and Windows 7. Where have I been?

Actually I like the way the new dir structure [...]


November 10th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Computers | Leave a comment

Microsoft File Transfer Manager

Today I was using this to download 4Gb ISO files from MSDN. Browsers failed, even the Firefox DownItAll! Plugin. It was slow, bursts of 100K with 10 second intervals. The speed was that of a bad modem. And it would hang up every 10 minutes and require a manual resume command.

After 10 hours [...]


August 18th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: Computers, Software | Leave a comment

nLite

I bought an old computer from Steve, dual core, better that I have now. Anyway, I am reinstalling a retail Windows XP onto it, and want to install SP2 fresh, not SP1 and upgrade. Creates a lot of junk. So we slipstream, merge SP2 into SP1 install CD. Can do it with lots of steps. [...]


August 14th, 2008 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Computers | Leave a comment

clip.exe

I wrote a utility called clip many years ago — you pipe output from a DOS program into it and it puts it on the clipboard. Then you can paste it somewhere.

e.g. dir > clip

I found a link to Copy Command Line Output to Windows Clipboard Directly. Turns out Microsoft had the [...]


March 6th, 2008 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: Software | One comment