Beyond Compare® is the ideal tool for comparing files and folders on your Windows or Linux system. Visualize changes in your code and carefully reconcile them. Beyond Compare is available at Scooter Software. A license was purchased to support a large user community. I wanted a means to simplify the distribution of this application with the license file. I chose…
Read More »In most cases, the host of a WordPress installation is not the same as the test installation. In the case of testing plugins, themes, and WordPress versions, an exact installation of the original WordPress install would be the best scenario. In other cases, a WordPress installation hosted by an ISP may need to be copied to another ISP. A name…
Read More »I needed a way to decompress a folder of gzipped IIS logs so that I may run Microsoft Log Parser against them. Instead of using Windows Explorer to select all the files and put into memory to attempt to extract, it is more feasable to run a command line script to select each file one by one, extract it, and…
Read More »Having tested eRoom under different conditions and scenarios, I have found it to be a laborious task to manually stop and start services throughout any procedure as there are at most nine services. So, I created a couple of scripts using AutoIT to stop and start all services that eRoom uses. Using these scripts have saved me quite a bit…
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Selenium is a test tool for web applications. Selenium tests run directly in a browser. This guide will demonstrate how to take many Selenium scripts and automate them using a single test using a Microsoft Windows workstation. Prerequisites Download Firefox (i.e. Firefox Setup 2.0.0.13.exe) Download Selenium IDE (Firefox plug-in) (i.e. selenium-ide-1.0-beta-1.xpi) and install by opening a Firefox window and dragging…
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Compressing hundreds of folders into individual archive files manually can be a time-consuming task. To automate the process, I modified an existing script to meet my requirements. I chose the 7-Zip Command Line edition because it is lightweight, consists of a single executable file, and provides excellent compression. 7-Zip can be downloaded here. The only other file required is the…
Read More »Several years ago, I came upon a script that would recursively traverse through a folder tree and create a M3U playlist for each folder respectively. I slightly modified the script to fit my requirements. This script will look for MP3 and WMA files and create a M3U file. For the desired results, put the script in the root folder of…
Read More »The Prefetch folder is used to increase the speed in loading times for applications that have already been executed. There are several problems with thought process. The folder is never purged leaving old and unwanted clutter in that folder that will eventually slow down the computer. Another annoyance, is that this is yet another folder that maintains tracking of what…
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VWMware folders can get congested with log files, file fragmentation, and bloated file sizes. To remedy this, there is a utility available through VMware called VMware-mount-5.5.0-18463.exe. This utility will also work with version 6 of VMware (tested!). It offers among other things, several command line tools for handling VMware files. Along with a couple of handy scripts, that I have…
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One issue that occasionally appears in Windows is when the Automatic Updates settings are completely grayed out. Instead of being able to choose how updates are handled, every option is disabled. In most cases, this is not a bug. It is the result of policy-based registry settings being applied to the system. These settings may have come from: Local Group…
Read More »Automate Network Drive Map at Boot not login Although this is a nice writeup. It does not work. When I originally created this process, I tested several times with success. Somewhere over time, critical updates and service packs broke this process. I will leave this article as is as it may help in some other design. Support AutoIT v3 (Freeware)…
Read More »All over the internet are the same instructions and the same Perl script to backup and clear the eventlogs. However, the Perl script does not clear the eventlogs. Under each of the explanations is the clear function is not implemented. The Issue The original code only backups Application, System, and Security eventlogs. Over the years, the newer OS versions of…
Read More »Not an easy answer to find, however, AutoIT is capable of allowing secure HTTP, FTP, or HTTPS downloads using a script. The following script worked for me. #include ;Sample script to download registered files from HTTP source. ;Internet Explorer used to offer the ability via http://username:password@www.myfavoratewebsite.com InetGet(“http://username:password@www.myfavoratewebsite.com/downloadme.exe”, “downloadme.exe”, 1) ;note: That there is no progressbar to indicate download. ;note: This…
Read More » Beyond Compare® is the ideal tool for comparing files and folders on your Windows or Linux system. Visualize changes in your code and carefully reconcile them. Beyond Compare is available at Scooter Software. A license was purchased to support a large user community. I wanted a means to simplify the distribution of this application with the license file. I chose…
Read More »Once compiled into an executable, the username and password is fairly safe. Yes, there are very rare decompilers out there, but safe to the normal user community. I chose this method of VBS2EXE type applications since those applications have a tendancy to extract the data in pure text either in local folder or temp folder. This method extracts to memory….
Read More »Preface A need to zip log files had arisen and needed to determine a solution. Winzip requires an installation of Winzip Command Line. If Winzip is unregistered, the application will prompt for acknowledgement to that fact. Tested several FREEWARE products, all require installation prior to use of command line or utilize proprietary compression. Solution Microsoft Compress.exe. It is FREEWARE, requires…
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AVS DVD Player is a compact and easy-to-use program that has a simple user-friendly interface allowing you to start watching DVD movies with no additional software. One more thing – it is absolutely FREE SOFTWARE! AVS DVD Player is available at http://www.avsmedia.com/DVDPlayer/index.aspx Repack of the freeware AVS DVD Player 2.2 to remove languages and other unrelated product.
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