Reveal, Copy and Get File Full Path with Copy as Path in Windows Vista

Windows 7 (and Vista) comes with a hidden context-sensitive menu or right click menu or shortcut menu that contains Copy as Path menu item or command. Copy as Path, which appears as menu item both for files and folder right click menu, as the name implies, will copy or grab the full path or shortcut […]

Windows 7 (and Windows 2008) Command Line Utility to Change Time Zone

Here is a great hidden command line utility which is available starting in Windows 7, “tzutil.exe,” which can be used to view or change the computer’s Time Zone. To use this command: 1. Open the Command Prompt.2. Enter any of following commands: tzutil /g (To view current time zone) tzutil /l (To get a list of all available time […]

Windows 7 Command Line Utility for Timezone Management – tzutil.exe

“tzutil.exe” is a command line utility introduced in Windows Vista (also in Windows 7 and Windows 2008) which can be used to change Time Zone or to view the current time zone information. To use this command (from a command prompt as administrator): tzutil /g – To view current time zonetzutil /l – To get […]

Creating Bootable Vista / Windows 7 USB Flash Drive

This will walk through the steps to create a bootable USB flash drive. These instructions assume that you are running Windows Vista or Windows 7. Required: USB Flash Drive Microsoft OS Disk (Vista / Windows 7) A computer running Vista / Windows 7 Step 1: Format the DriveWarning: This will erase everything on your USB […]

Schedule Windows reboot (restart) from command line with schtasks

Schedule one-time reboot: schtasks /create /tn “Reboot” /tr “shutdown /r /t 1” /sc once /st 01:00:00 /sd 08/18/2009 /ru “System” Create scheduled task to run twice daily: schtasks /create /tn “TTF” /tr “C:TempTttf.bat” /sc daily /st 06:00:00 /sd 08/25/2009 /ri 720 /du 720 /ru “System” Create scheduled task to run every weekday, M-F: schtasks /create […]

Set up your laptop for work: Turn off the crap

When it comes to setting up your work laptop, I suggest that you should only care about speed and efficiency. This means that your computer should be (a) booting up quickly, and (b) running smoothly (without crashes). The key to a quick startup is minimising the number of programs that run automatically when you bootup […]