If Internet explorer icon is missing in Start menu then it can be added by doing the following steps. Windows XP Right click on Start menu and select Properties Click on ‘Customize‘ button. Now in the ‘Customize Start menu‘ window select the check button ‘Internet’ and also select ‘Internet explorer‘ from the drop down list … Read more
If you want to find which version of Windows OS you are using, you can do that as follows. Click on Start button and then click on Run. (Or you can use the keyboard shortcut Win + R). Type Winver in the text box and then press Enter. Then you will see a window like … Read more
Below is the list of most frequently needed commands while debugging a program in Windbg. Below is the list of commonly used windbg commands. You can also see the syntax of these commands. Command Description Syntax BP Create break point Bp function_address BP module_name!function_name BL List the breakpoints Bl BC Cancel break point BC breakpoint_no … Read more
In Windows7 one can change the display resolution as per the below steps. Click on the Start button. Click on Control panel It displays all the control panel items. Check if control panel is being displayed in classic view(small icons). If not turn it into classic view. Click on Display Now click on Adjust resolution … Read more
Following are the steps for joining a windows computer to a domain. The steps are given separately for XP and Vista/Windows 7 computers. How to join a Vista or Windows 7 computer to a domain: Click on the start button(Shortcut for this : Ctrl-Esc) Right click on Computer Select Properties from the context menu Click Change Settings under ‘Computer … Read more
Remote desktop connection manager is a utility that provides docking console for remote desktop connections. If you use remote desktop feature to connect to multiple computers then this would be very useful for you. You can create connection settings for the remote computers and you can just open the TS connection with a single click … Read more
If you are not seeing volume icon in the taskbar or system tray then you can restore it by doing the following steps. Windows XP : Open Control Panel(You can open it from Start menu or by running the command control from Run window) Open Sound and Audio devices In the volume tab select the … Read more
We can create and synchronize folder pairs from windows command line using Synctoy.You can find syntax below. Creating a folder pair for synchronization from windows command line The command to create a new folder pair is Synctoy -d(left=<left_folder_path>, right=<right_folder_path>, name=<folder_pair_name>, operation={synchronize,echo,contribute}) (The arguments user need to provide are enclosed in braces.) We can also supply … Read more
Poderosa is a utility that provides tabbed command windows for ssh/telnet connections. This is similar to Gnome terminal in Linux. This post explains how to configure Poderosa. This application is an alternative for Putty connection manager. The latest version of Poderosa(4.1.0) can be downloaded from the link – //en.poderosa.org/news/2006-11-22.html. Download the exe file and install … Read more
This post explains how to use program symbol files to debug applications or kernel drivers on Windows operating system. On Windows platform, the program symbols are stored in a separate file. These files are referred as pdb files and has the extension .pdb. When debugging a program in windbg, we need these symbol files otherwise … Read more