Most of the Windows users know how to map a network share as drive to their Windows system. It involves several mouse clicks. But there is even a quicker and easier way to do the same thing from command prompt. Here’s how to quickly connect to a Windows share from command prompt: 1. Issue the [...]
Comodo Programs Manager is a free one stop application that can uninstall applications, delete services and driver files, add or remove Windows features and manage Windows updates.Download it from here. Once installed, a reboot may be required before using it. The main interface is simplistic with sections for Programs, Drivers and Services, Windows Features and [...]
The popular XAMPP package which contains built-in services for running a web server (Apache, MySQL, PHP) can be great for testing on local systems before actually doing anything on live websites. An earlier post explained how to get XAMPP running on Linux Mint/Ubuntu. Here is how to install it on Windows : 1. Download the [...]
PathPing is a cool Windows command that combines the functinality of Ping as well as Tracert in a single command. PathPing is very useful utility for network troubleshooting. PathPing pings every node in the path to the destination and computes individual statistics for each node giving you a much detailed output which enables you to [...]
FeedDemon is a popular and free RSS reader for Windows that is easy to use and makes managing RSS feeds from various online resources convenient. Download and install it from here. Once installed, simply right click and select “New subscription” for adding a new RSS feed or create a new folder (say category wise for [...]
The AutoRecover feature in Excel makes it possible to automatically save open Excel workbooks at a pre-defined time interval and recover them in case of a system or application outage. This comes in handy when and if there is a sudden system or application crash so that previously opened Excel files can be restored quickly. [...]