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Remove the Speaker Icon from the Tray
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Change the size of Icons on your Desktop |
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Adding Notepad to Send To
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Copying data from DOS / console mode program screens
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Dos Command Prompt
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Whos Connected with you |
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Long and
Short File names in DOS |
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DOS Command History |
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Changing A
File's Date and Tiem Stamp in DOS |
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Change the size of Icons on your Desktop
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To change the size of the Icons on the Desktop:
Right-click on the Desktop
Choose Properties from the context menu. On the Appearance tab
look in the Item list box. Once you find Icon you can choose the
size from the Size box
To hit the Apply button, once you are satisfied hit OK |
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Adding Notepad to Send To
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Create a shortcut to notepad.exe in the \Windows\SendTo Folder:
Click Start, Select Programs and start Windows Explorer
Select the \Windows\SendTo Folder
Right-click an empty space in the folder, and from the context
menu choose New > Shortcut
In the Create Shortcut window, enter C:\Windows\Notepad.exe in
the Command line box Note: If you installed windows in another
directory, or on another drive, you'll have to replace the
C:\Windows\ with the correct path
Press Next
We suggest removing the .exe from Notepad.exe in the Select a
name for the shortcut box
Press Finish
Then you will have the option to view file contents by
right-clicking on the file and "sending" it to Notepad.
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Copying data from DOS
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If you're still using DOS or console mode (also refereed to as character
mode) programs that doesn't provide a way to export data, you maybe looking for
a way to capture what's displayed on such programs. Try this:
Start a DOS box or a Command Prompt (DOS box) inside Windows.
"Start | Programs | Command Prompt / DOS"
Run the character mode program that you want to import data from, and go to the
screen with the data you want to capture.
Right click the title bar of the DOS box
Select "Edit | Mark"
Click and drag the mouse until you select the data area that you want to copy.
Press ENTER when you've finished selecting.
Switch to the Windows program that you want to import the just copied data to,
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Dos Command Prompt
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Are you sick of seeing the same old prompt whenever you go to the
"DOS/Command Prompt" -- "C:\>" for example?
Here's how to change it to something more exciting:
If you're in Windows, go to the "DOS Prompt" or the "Command Prompt"
Type
PROMPT
followed by the format characters for your new prompt (only a few format
characters are listed below to keep the compatibility. to find out all the codes
available to you in your operating system, type "PROMPT/?" without the quotes
and press ENTER):
$d -- current date
$t -- current time
$g -- ">" character
$p -- current path/directory
for example:
PROMPT $t $p $g
Press ENTER |
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Whos Connected to You
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If you're running any TCP/IP services (such as WWW service, FTP service,
POP3/SMTP services, or even just NetBIOS over TCP/IP) on your computer, you may
want to find out who's connected to your computer and from where at a given
time. This information is easy to obtain using NETSTAT command.
Go to the "DOS Prompt" or "Command Prompt"
Type
NETSTAT <number of seconds>
For example, if you want to redisplay the TCP/IP connections every 10 seconds,
type:
NETSTAT 10
Press ENTER |
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Showing
Long and Short Filenames in DOS
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There are two additional switches that can be used when doing a
DIR
- /B - Shows only the long filename, no details
- /Z - Shows the short filename, with details
- /B /Z - Shows only short filename, with no details
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DOS Command History |
If you use DOSKEY in either your AUTOEXEC.BAT file or as part of
the properties of your DOS Window,
you can show and recall the history of commands you enter and
the DOS prompt.
- To recall previous commands, use the up arrow key.
- A complete list of previous commands can be shown if you
press the F7 key
- To use one, press F9 and the number of the command you
want to use
- To clear the cache, press Alt+F7
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Changing a
File's Date and Time Stamp |
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You can change the Date and Time stamp of a file to the current
setting. Type:
COPY filename /B + ,, /Y |
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