Freeware DVD Authoring Tool

Posted in Windows on May 27th, 2010 by phoenixdigital

Haven’t tried this out yet but DVDFlick looks like a decent freeware DVD authoring tool.

http://www.dvdflick.net/

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Decompilation of DLLs

Posted in Windows on May 27th, 2010 by phoenixdigital

Great little application for de-compiling windows dll files. Can be used for debugging purposes to ensure that certain methods are available. Can also be used for peeking into what a dll does.

The free version is quite powerful.

Red Gate Reflector

Setting up a Random Playlist in iTunes

Posted in Entertainment, OS X Tips, Windows on May 25th, 2010 by phoenixdigital

This is the best playlist for making sure you listen to all of your music in your iTunes library. As soon as you get home plug your iPod/iPhone in and all songs that were played since you last synced will be swapped out for new ones.
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Forcefully Delete a Partition in Windows

Posted in Windows on May 21st, 2010 by phoenixdigital

Sometime windows disk management program doesn’t want to let you delete a partition. Here is an easy way to forcefully do it.
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Killing a Remote Terminal Session

Posted in Windows on May 6th, 2010 by phoenixdigital

Ever tried to login to a server via RDP only to be told there are not enough connections available. Well this post should be of some assistance as long as you have admin access.

Type the following at a command prompt to see a list of users logged in.

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qwinsta /server:192.168.168.1

The type the following to kill a users session. Where 3 below is the sessionID I want to kill

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rwinsta /server:192.168.168.1 3

http://weblogs.asp.net/owscott/archive/2003/12/30/Managing-Terminal-Services-Sessions-Remotely.aspx

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Form Recovery in Firefox

Posted in Blog2Blog, General Web, Unix, Windows on April 21st, 2010 by phoenixdigital

Great little plugin for firefox that will recover lost form data. I installed it a little too late but now I am ready for the next time a website/browser/internet connection craps out on me.

http://lazarus.interclue.com/index.html

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Disable Startup Programs on Windows OS’

Posted in Windows on January 18th, 2010 by phoenixdigital

Nifty little tool that is recommended by Microsoft for disabling programs that run at startup.
Saves you the hassle of editing the registry and also provides a way to restore these programs.
AutoRuns.

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Remote Windows Management

Posted in Windows on December 8th, 2009 by phoenixdigital

DNS, Add users/computers, IIS, Terminal Services, etc…
It’s the Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 Administration Tools Pack incase the link below changes
Download Here

Now you no longer need to login via RDP to get to the control panel.

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Freeware CD/DVD Burner

Posted in Windows on December 8th, 2009 by phoenixdigital

Great little app InfraRecorder which I just found which is now the permanent replacement for Nero Burning ROM.
http://infrarecorder.org/

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Outlook Mail Migration to Another Machine

Posted in Windows on October 13th, 2009 by phoenixdigital

If you have to migrate a user from one machine to another you will most likely have to move all of their mail over. Since most users store all their mail locally (I personally think this is ridiculous) you will need to copy over their outlook .pst file to the new machine.
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