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Wednesday, November 30, 2005 4:55 AM

Disable or Modify CAPS LOCK key

An annoying problem Do you accidentally hit CAPS LOCK all the time? Its placement on keyboards next to the 'A' key puts it in a heavy-traffic area. Now solved http://johnhaller.com/jh/useful_stuff/disable_caps_lock/ Using the information at this site
Posted by saveenr | 0 Comments
Monday, November 28, 2005 9:07 PM

Extracting Files from a .MSI package

The Scenario One needs to retrieve a couple of files from a windows installer package (.MSI file). One could install the MSI and find the files in the *Program Files* folder but there are problesm: can take too long to perform the installation it's desirable
Posted by saveenr | 5 Comments
Thursday, November 24, 2005 3:16 PM

Script to Enable Remote Desktop

Remote Desktop is disabled when installing Windows XP or Windows 2003. To enable this feature you can: Use the UI. Right-Click on My Computer and select Properties. Enable Remote Desktop on the Remote Tab. Use the simple script below VBScript Example
Posted by saveenr | 2 Comments
Thursday, November 24, 2005 1:54 PM

Use the built-in Batch Rename in Windows Explorer to give files consistent and readable names

The Scenario One has a lot of oddly named files such as thsoe produced by a digital camera. Example of what a digital camera might produce: pic383718.jpg pic120453.jpg pic938889.jpg pic109012.jpg pic433590.jpg pic219093.jpg The Pain Experienced The names
Posted by saveenr | 1 Comments
Tuesday, November 22, 2005 8:16 AM

UX: Being Good is better than being Consistent

The Inspiration This Dave Winer post on firefox ( http://www.scripting.com/2005/11/19.html#convincingFirefoxToSelectallOnClick ) reminded me to post my thoughts on UX consistency. My Observation By default when we design a User Experience we default to
Posted by saveenr | 4 Comments
Friday, November 18, 2005 1:12 AM

Creating Strongly-Typed WMI Classes with Mgmtclassgen.exe

My recent work involved writing a C# to automating the installs of server products. A lot of the work involved using WMI. Generally, working with WMI in scripting languages like Perl, Python, or VBScript is easy but using it in C# can be difficult. WMI
Posted by saveenr | 3 Comments
 
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