Many new and/or novice Mac users that get a G3, G4, or G5 Mac for the first time (but may be very experienced Windows power users) or people who wish to run Windows on their Mac like a modern model, ask the question: Can Windows run on a Mac? The answer is yes, it can. Best of all, you do not need Virtual PC either. You can legally and freely download an open source application called Q based on qemu. You will need, however, a legal copy of Windows XP, which hopefully you already own. However, BEFORE READING ON, you…
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This article was primarily written around Win 7, Vista, and XP. However, it also applies to Win ME & 95/98 except that the hidden icon cache file for these is named “ShellIconcache” instead of “IconCache.db” and has a different location (C:\Windows). About the Icon Cache Windows is constantly collecting new icon information in RAM to add to the icon cache. This is to ensure that in future the icons can be formed more quickly. Speed is important because there are thousands of icons stored in a computer, which would slow down the system if there were not cached. As new…
Well, no, it’s well documented that batch scripting cannot handle floating point maths. However, by incorporating a few lines of VB scripting floating point math may be successful. This hybrid batch/VB script shows how some calculations can easily be made. The amounts used are for demonstration purposes only and it is not recommended that the script be used for sensitive currency calculations. The script has been briefly tested in Win XP. @echo off cls setlocal echo wscript.echo eval(wscript.arguments(0))>%temp%\eval1.vbs set total=1182078.11 set figtwo=4.70 set figtre=17.5 :: Calculate 4.70% of 1182078.11 & store the result in environment variable Grint set c=%total%*(%figtwo%/100) call…
An OST file or ‘.ost’ is an offline folder file in Microsoft Outlook that contains almost every data related to e-mails, like e-mail messages, journals, notes, drafts, folders, posts, appointments, contacts, tasks, meeting requests, distribution lists, task requests, calendar (planner), attachments etc. This folder allows users to work offline. Outlook synchronizes the changes made in the OST file with the Exchange server the next time it connects. However, OST might get corrupted due to few possible reasons, resulting into inaccessibility of Outlook. Outlook may display error message “Facing error code 003” while accessing it, which means user should immediately repair…
Tail.vbs borrows shamelessy from unix’ tail command, and more or less performs the same function: to obtain the last N lines of a textfile (the tail). Usage 1 (content is obtained from the filename given on the commandline): [cscript] TAIL[.vbs] path+filename startline [numberlines] where ‘startline’ is counted from the end of the file, and numberlines is how many lines to obtain after that point, and defaults to “through end-of-file” If your filename happens to be a number, be sure to include a full or relative path in front of it so it will be interpreted as a filename. F/e, if…
Sometimes some tasks can be taken a lot of time to end up. This vbscript is created in order to play a random radio music in background while the script is running another task until to finish up and the music will stop too. ‘**********************************Description in English*********************************** ‘This vbscript is created by Hackoo on 29/09/2019 ‘Sometimes some tasks can be taken a lot of time to end up. ‘This code is created in order to play music in background while the script is running another ‘task until to finish up and the music will stop too. ‘So, the user can…
Often I have to send emails of various logs and other details to myself and others. Just for this stuff logging on to the system ,collect the data, compose the email, Attach log file.. It take lot of time and efforts. Was wondering if a script can do the job for me.. Overall thats why scripting is .. Later i came across a VBScript logic which can send email for me.. It helped me a lot so thought lets write an article in simple terms explaining how you can use it to fulfill your needs . I tried to explain…
I created this batch file because I needed a quick way to see what ip addresses were available on my home network in order to assign static ip addresses. I think this could be very useful to others! Let me know what you think or if I can improve it in any way!! START OF CODE: @echo off :Intro echo. echo Network Scanner echo —————– echo. echo This batch file scans the IP address range with a timeout of 160ms echo. echo. echo Please enter the first three sets of the ip address in this format: set /p ipbegin=Example: “192.168.1”…
Heres how to get your aureal vortex 8830 (vortex 2) pci sound card to work in dos 6.22. this may work for other versions of dos, but i’ve only tested this solution with 6.22: Step 1. you need a driver, so go here … http://www.inetbridge.net/forum/driver-aureal-sound-driver-vortex-2-8830-vt1160.html (the download link is at the bottom of the page) Step 2. Unzip what you’ve downloaded and check out the contents. The only file you will need is called “au30dos.com”. write that file to floppy disk. Step 3. Startup dos and copy the au30dos.com from your floppy drive to the c:\ drive that dos is…
When using an old computer with Google Chrome 34 or later, you may receive a message that states “This computer will soon stop receiving Google Chrome Updates because its hardware is no longer supported”. This is believed to be due to the lack of SSE2 instructions in some older processors. On many computers I have worked on with Windows XP, I have not received the message. However, on one AMD Athlon XP machine, the message appeared. It’s also the only machine that coincidentally lacks SSE2 instructions (all older pre AMD 64 processors lack SSE2). This thread also seems to corroborate…
This batch script can get file version of any application (*.exe ;*.dll) inside a directory (in my example i set “RootFolder=%ProgramData%”); so you can change it as you want like (set “RootFolder=%AppData%”) and so on … Just Change this Variable in your case and the script will do the rest. For any update just check this link : https://pastebin.com/uWscW7rU GetFileVersion.bat @echo off Mode 75,3 & color 9E Title Get File Version of any Application from file list using WMIC by Hackoo ::****************************************************************************** REM Just Change this Variable in your case and the script will do the rest (-_°) Set “RootFolder=%ProgramData%”…
Delineate your column information with tabs in your text file (eg. “MyDoc.txt”). Step 1. Open your text file in Notepad (double-click the text file in File Manager). Step 2. Select Edit -> Replace… from the menu. Step 3. Type two spaces in the “Find what:” field and one space in the “Replace with:” field. Step 4. Then click on “Replace All” repeatedly until no more replacements are made. Step 5. Now type only one space in the “Find what:” field and only a tab in the “Replace with:” field. Step 6. Click on the “Find Next” button. Step 7. Then…
For awhile now motherboard manufactures have been including features in the BIOS to enable us to overclock our CPU’s to make our systems go faster. But for people new to overclocking this can be a very frustrating experience learning how to adjust all the settings so they have a nice stable system. Gigabyte has included a utility bundled with their motherboards for sometime now called Easytune6 which makes this a very simple process. You can find Easytune6 on the disk that came with your motherboard or you can download it here: Easytune6 Download Before we start using Easytune6 lets take…
For a long time my bud and i had been working on a matrix script. We had been asked buy someone in our computer tech class to come up with a matrix batch, and for the past 3 months or so, we’ve been working on it. We found out how to generate a random 1 or 0, but we couldn’t figure out how to make it truly random per digit, only per line. Earlier today we figured it out. Alot fo matrix batch file online claim to be a true matrix batch. And honestly they are pretty cool. But this…
::——————————————————- ::please use quotes (“”) around the input ::——————————————————- ::running from cmd: ::hex “Hello World!” ::——————————————————- ::running from the .bat file: ::input=”Hello World!” ::——————————————————- ::output-string=48 65 6C 6C 6F 20 57 6F 72 6C 64 ::——————————————————- ::I was unable to escape ^, so please dont use it 🙂 ::——————————————————- ::set fulloutput to 0 if you only want the input & output ::——————————————————- set fullouput=0 setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion set string=%1 ::removes double “” at the end of %string% set string=%string:~0,-1% ::removes the double “” at the start of %string% set string=%string:~1,31% call :strlen iamount String set line=— set ln=———– set lncount=0 :llloop…