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Creating empty text files and changing file timestamps using Windows Command Prompt & Powershell

May 17, 2013 Leave a response Shortlink

Linux and UNIX have the touch command for changing the creation dates and times for files. However, it also will create empty text files for you as well. In fact, there are times when I feel the need to do [...]

Saving Windows Command Prompt & Powershell command history to a file for later useage

May 15, 2013 Leave a response Shortlink

It’s amazing what ideas Linux gives that you wouldn’t encounter that clearly in the world of Windows. One of these is output and command line history so a script can be created. In the Windows world, this would be called [...]

Piggybacking an Android Wi-Fi device off your Windows PC’s internet connection

March 16, 2013 Leave a response Shortlink

One of the disadvantages of my Google/Asus Nexus 7 is that it needs a Wi-Fi connection to use. Most of the time this is not a problem since I also have a Huawei mobile WiFi hub from T-Mobile and this [...]

Upgrading from Windows 7 to Windows 8 in a VMWare Virtual Machine

November 1, 2012 Leave a response Shortlink

Though my main home PC runs Linux Mint, I do like to have the facility to use Windows software from time to time and virtualisation has allowed me to continue doing that. For a good while, it was a Windows [...]

Adding a Start Menu to Windows 8

October 16, 2012 Leave a response Shortlink

For all the world, it looks like Microsoft has mined a concept from a not often recalled series of Windows: 3.x. Then, we had a Program Manager for starting all our applications with no sign of a Start Menu. That [...]

Command line file comparison in Windows

August 20, 2012 Leave a response Shortlink

While UNIX and Linux both have the diff command for comparing the contents of text files, the Windows counterpart was unknown to me until recently. Its name is fc and it looks as if the f is for file and [...]