Script generator beta

Last night I wrote a small web-app. I called it “Script Generator” and it’s a simple page with lots of checkboxes. The checkboxes let you chose diferent actions, and then it generates a Windows Shell script for you (*.cmd) based on your choices. Most parts of the script is based on the blog entries I’ve Continue reading →

July 7th, 2010 by Marcus 

WordPress, bots & .htaccess

So once again some nasty bots are trying to attack my brothers webpage… Since he uses WordPress, I installed the following wordpress plugins for him. IQ Block country – awesome plugin. Stealth login – hides the login page Cookies for comments – fools spambots Invisible defender – fools spambots some more NoSpamNx – stops spambots Continue reading →

July 1st, 2010 by Marcus 

Save some battery

When using battery i always do two things Turn off all fancy effects Set the power options to power save To save myself from some clicking I use those commands Kill_Aero_and_themes.cmd @echo off net stop “Application Experience” net stop “Desktop Window Manager Session Manager” net stop “Themes” /Y powercfg -s a1841308-3541-4fab-bc81-f71556f20b4a by lunaworx.net T …continue Continue reading →

June 29th, 2010 by Marcus 

Fresh installation of Win7

I had some problems with the Realtek sound drivers (ALC883) in my Win7, strangely enough, it worked fine in Vista and in the Win7RC that I used to upgrade my vista. Something is rotten in the state of Realtek! But using a fresh installed win7, I ended up having lots of BSD caused by the Continue reading →

June 8th, 2010 by Marcus 

Kill all

This is destructive but fun. Use Start menu/Run or Windows +R and type taskkill /FI “imagename ne explorer.exe” This will shut down all programs started by your account. That means all programs started by you and some of the programs from the StartUp (but not applications started  by the system). It will try to shut Continue reading →

May 25th, 2010 by Marcus 

Windows search in XP

I like using Windows Search, but I hate it when it takes over the search function in the explorer window, at least in Windows XP. Fortunately, there is a way to remove it (and the annoying dog) from the explorer window, but still keep Windows Search running as an app by itself. Just click on Continue reading →

May 25th, 2010 by Marcus 

Clean up script

As I mentioned in my previous posting. I like to keep my machine clean. Windows has a lot of nice apps for cleaning up and tuning the computer. The commands run in this script are the following System Maintenance (“%windir%\system32\msdt.exe”) – kind of like TuneUp Utilities OneClick msconfig – if you need to remove stuff Continue reading →

May 21st, 2010 by Marcus 

ASP.net hangs

One thing I learned pretty fast when working with ASP.net was how easy it was for the IIS to hang. It was incredibly annoying. So I did a kill-the-whole-crap script and added a link to it on my quicklaunch. It saved me a lot of time IIS restarts once it has crashed, so after killing Continue reading →

May 20th, 2010 by Marcus