Reading the Windows Registry from PowerShell
Reading the Windows registry from PowerShell can be a bit cumbersome, when all you wanted to retrieve is the value…
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Useful PowerShell functions and snippets
This post contains a few (short) useful PowerShell functions and snippets, that you can include in projects and/or your profile,…
Speed up folders with many similar named files
This is a little known reghack: When Windows stores files in a folder on an NTFS partition, it still creates…
Windows Explorer search for text in ALL files
You are sure that the text files in a folder contain a certain string, but the Windows Explorer search doesn't…
Balloon tips OFF in windows
Want to get rid of those nasty balloon tips, hovering over the task tray? Here's the registry command: reg add…
Reghack: DosHere, but on files too!
Annoying: You want a command shell, but there is no folder in view in the Windows Explorer, just the files…
Network share connections using logical DNS name
Situation: You have an application server, but its network name is like abcx0143.domain.intra, which is just too hard to remember…