Tag: Windows

See inside Registry.pol with the Pol2Reg utility

See inside Registry.pol with the Pol2Reg utility

Here is another great utility for the Windows administrator's Toolbelt, written and shared by Jacques Bensimon. Okay, this may be a solution in search of ... Read More

How to enable DNS logging to monitor requests

How to enable DNS logging to monitor requests

This comes from the 'Learn something new every day' file. Working with a client to decommission an old DNS server, this important question came up: ... Read More

A Better Windows Path Manager

A Better Windows Path Manager

Jacques Bensimon wrote a 32-bit version of the Path Manager utility back in 2006 to bring a little sanity to the task of viewing or ... Read More

How to drag shortcuts into Administrator Prompt

How to drag shortcuts into Administrator Prompt

If you normally have programs running in an elevated state (by using Run As Administrator), you can't drag and drop files from explorer into it. ... Read More

Quick Robocopy switch refresher & Defender Speed tip!

Quick Robocopy switch refresher & Defender Speed tip!

This week, I was doing some file server migrations and needed to look up some RoboCopy switches to get the data over quickly. Here's a ... Read More