Articles for Windows Scripting

How to test to see if an smtp mail server is available using telnet

Kill all chromes

Turn off Windows updates - or set to Manual

How to edit your hosts file easily

Smartermail IP whitelisting

Awesome network tool - TNM

We use Total Network Monitor - TNM to monitor our sites, servers, client sites, phones, and even local wifi clients.

Autohotkey Scripts

Mike's AHK scripts ; undo-redo to take cursor back to previous place (useful in homesite or visual studio) F4::Send ^z^+z ; ctrl-shift-D for insert current datestamp ^+D::Send %A_YYYY%%A_MM%%A_DD% ; ctrl-shift-F2 for rename file with current datestamp ^+F2::Send {F2}{left 4}_%A_YYYY%%A_MM%%A_...

Html Application template

The great thing about HTAs is that you can access the file system. Cool for a offline laptop / kiosk version of a web site. The database can be replaced by XML data structure. Read More