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Windows Multiple Remote Desktop MMC Snap-in

03/03/2011 Leave a comment

You can now get an Windows MMC snap-in that allows you to easily manage multiple remote desktop connections at once.

However it can be a little tricky to find, especially if you are running Windows 7

The file you need to download is here :
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=E487F885-F0C7-436A-A392-25793A25BAD7
it’s the “Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 Administration Tools Pack”

Which sound like just a service pack for the tools, but it’s the whole thing.

You then need to start MMC and then add “Remote Desktops” snap-in.
Then right-click on the “Remote Desktops” branch and choose “Add new connection.”

Categories: Windows

5 Things you didn’t know you could do with Notepad.exe

07/12/2010 Leave a comment

via http://www.groovypost.com/howto/how-to/5-groovy-things-didnt-know-about-notepad-exe/

Categories: Windows

Can I have custom or locally cached dvdid information in Media Center?

07/12/2010 Leave a comment

Yes!

http://dvdxml.com/p/faq/faq.php?0.cat.2.11

Categories: media center, TV, Windows

How to mount a windows share in Linux

23/06/2010 Leave a comment

1) Make sure you have following information:
==> Windows username and password to access share name
==> Sharename (such as //server/share) or IP address
==> root level access on Linux

2) Login to Linux as a root user (or use su command)

3) Create the required mount point:
# mkdir -p /mnt/ntserver

4) Use the mount command as follows:
# mount -t cifs //ntserver/download -o
username=vivek,password=myPassword /mnt/ntserver
If you don’t specify the password, you will be prompted for it.

Use following command if you are using Old version such as RHEL <=4 or Debian <= 3:
# mount -t smbfs -o username=vivek,password=D1W4x9sw //ntserver/download /mnt/ntserver

5) Access Windows 2003/2000/NT share using cd and ls command: # cd /mnt/ntserver; ls -l
Where,

* -t smbfs : File system type to be mount (outdated, use cifs) * -t cifs : File system type to be mount
* -o : are options passed to mount command, in this example I had passed two options. First argument is password (vivek) and second argument is password to connect remote windows box
* //ntserver/download : Windows 2000/NT share name
* /mnt/ntserver Linux mount point (to access share after mounting)

Categories: Linux, Windows

Missing Right Click Convert to dvr-ms format context menu item

07/06/2010 Leave a comment

If you change the default program for “WTV” files to anything but Windows Media Center this option will disappear.
Simply change it back to Windows Media Center and it will reappear.

Categories: media center, TV, Windows

Missing Right Click Convert to dvr-ms format context menu item

07/06/2010 1 comment

If you change the default program for “WTV” files to anything but Windows Media Center this option will disappear.
Simply change it back to Windows Media Center and it will reappear.

Categories: media center, TV, Windows

Picture Resizer 4.0

02/06/2010 Leave a comment

simple, easy to use picture resizer

http://www.rw-designer.com/picture-resize

Categories: Windows

Fixing slow Save As problems.

09/03/2010 Leave a comment

Open RegEdit and go to :
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers

and rename it to something like

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ShellIconOverlayIdentifiersOLD

Categories: Windows

Batch Picture Resize

28/01/2010 Leave a comment

A good program to resize a bunch of photos all at once.

How you set the options is a bit odd, you rename the execuatable file, but otherwise a good program.

Batch Picture Resize

There is a “Renaming Wizard” of the site to show you how to rename the file to get different outputs.

Categories: General, Windows

Converting Windows7 WTV files

17/12/2009 Leave a comment

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Photo by Roadsidepictures

Any TV programs that you record with Windows7 Media Center is written in a WTV format. Which is a new format for Windows7*. Which is fine if you only plan to watch it back on the same PC or on another Windows7 PC. If however you wish to watch it on a Vista or XP computer,  or you wish to shrink the file size a little, then you will need to convert the file.

You can pay money for programs like WTV2AVI to do it but you can also do it for free in Windows 7.

Read more…

Categories: TV, Windows
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