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Revisiting Microsoft/Sysinternals Du as a batch file

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 19 Sep 2014 11:00:35 +0000

My tips for using Sysinternals’ Du.exe were well received last week, and my former coworker Charlie mentioned a GUI tool called Windirstat that I had completely forgotten about. For the command-line averse, it’s an incredibly useful tool. But there’s one

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How to clean up a Windows server

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 12 Sep 2014 11:00:35 +0000

From time to time, Windows patches will fail to install because a server doesn’t have enough space to install them. Finding the ginormous files are that are hogging all the space on the C drive is really tedious if you do

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What I would do to fix Dr. A’s computer

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 12:19:48 +0000

I left my conversation with Dr. A nearly convinced he doesn’t really need a new computer. The local store is pitching him a new $700 Dell Inspiron with a 1 TB hard drive and 6 GB of RAM and a

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Registry optimization

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:08:33 +0000

I gave my Windows 2000 system a little tuneup today. Nothing major, but it feels peppier now, and didn't take all that long to do. Nor did it require any expensive utilities.

This works with Windows 2000, XP, NT4, and Vista. For Windows 9x advice, you'll have to turn to an old critically acclaimed book written by someone you've never heard of.

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Identifying what processes are talking on your Windows box

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 22:22:32 +0000

If you're curious whether a particular piece of software might be spyware, or you have some other reason to believe your computer might have been compromised and might be talking to something it shouldn't be, there's a quick and easy way to find out besides using the standard netstat -an command.

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Optimizing Windows networks

Dave Farquhar — Sun, 14 Dec 2003 19:31:15 +0000

My church's IT czar asked me a good question the other day. His network performance was erratic and Network Neighborhood was messed up. Some computers saw different views of the network, although if you manually connected to other computers, that usually worked.

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