Vlad & Alice

I am continuing Part 1 (AeroShake) and Part 2 (Windows Management) of the Windows 7 tips with a few more:
By pressing the Win + SHIFT + Left or Win + SHIFT + Right key combinations you will move the active window between secondary screens. This is very useful especially when you forget a program like [...]

Part1 – AeroShake continues with another great tip for Windows 7: the windows management. Let’s say you have some windows open like Yahoo Messenger, 2-3 Explorers, a Firefox and a Word document. You already know from Part1 that if you click the title bar of the active window and shake it a few times all [...]

Today I am starting a series of tips and tricks that I bet not many of you knew about Windows 7. This is the upcoming edition of Windows formerly codenamed Blackcomb and Vienna. It is planned to hit the market this summer, but as always the Release Candidates versions already leaked on the Internet. It [...]

In Windows Vista the Administrator account is hidden by default and the user you create on the instalation or the OEM setup has full administrator rights. But that is not quite safe because every program or script you start from that point on will run with elevated credentials. So you are exposed to viruses and [...]

OpenVPN has troubles working in Vista with UAC activated. To force it work you must edit your .ovpn file and add the following lines:

route-method exe
route-delay 10

Save it and run OpenVPN-GUI as Administrator. That’s it…

You can easily switch your network settings using the netsh command, instead of installing a lot of unnecessary software. Here are two examples, one for dhcp settings, and one for a static address. You can put it into a .bat file:

netsh interface ip set address "Net" source=dhcp

netsh interface ip set address "Net" static 192.168.0.xx 255.255.255.0 [...]

If you found yourself in the position of needing something from the Vista installation disk, you can always raise a Command Prompt Window, and navigate to that location. For example you need the product key so you can copy – paste it rather than typing it by hand.
During the GUI phase of the installation you [...]

Remote Desktop is disabled by default in Windows Vista, but it’s easy enough to turn it back on. If you need to access your Vista PC from another box, it’s an essential thing to turn on.
To get to the configuration page, you can either right-click the Computer icon and choose properties, or you can type [...]

I usually dual boot my PC with Windows and Linux. For the moment I still heavily use Windows so most of my information is stored on NTFS drives. My linux ext3 partition is only 10 GB wich is more than enough. But I recently installed VMware server on Ubuntu Hardy Heron, and obviously I was [...]

Allows proper local or remote shutdown of machine.
SHUTDOWN [/i | /l | /s | /r | /g | /a | /p | /h | /e] [/f] [/m \computer][/t xxx][/d [p|u:]xx:yy [/c "comment"]]