If you are a regular Windows 10 user, then you must be familiar with the power of the Command Prompt. However, some people do want to use the wonders of Command Prompt but they do not like its dull interface. Therefore, they want some sort of magic through which they can simply take advantage of ... Read more
Changing network configuration can be a real pain if you use your computer, a notebook for example, in more than one different network where you need a static configuration instead of a dynamic. Although Windows offers one alternate configuration it is quite circumstantial to access. The following PowerShell script will change network configurations with only ... Read more
Maybe you have already come across applications that require you to rearrange things on your desktop for optimal visibility or which you only use in combination with other programs or items - an automated startup or rearrangement would come handy in those situation. The following little PowerShell script allows just this - automatical actions on ... Read more
PowerShell scripts are hard to run without any kind of popup. Without a small workaround, it may even be impossible, even if you specify the -WindowStyle Hidden switch - this will only result in the PowerShell window blinking up for a split second and disappearing afterwards. You can circumvent this issue by launching the PowerShell ... Read more
Windows 7 offers the possibility to switch between preinstalled sound schemes and also create new ones and delete those again. What it does not provide however is a way to export and import those schemes to use them on other systems. There is a way to do this but it involves copying over all the ... Read more
The aim of the following script was to take music from a single folder with unsorted but tagged audio files and sort them into the music library according to artist and album. It often happens that you have audio files in your browser's download folder or your instant messenger's received files folder where they usually ... Read more
The aim of this guide is to create a folder whose content is deleted if the contained files have not been accessed longer than a specific time (this process is applied to single files, not the whole folder). I will choose two weeks for demonstration purposes (= 14 days). Such a folder can be used ... Read more
To convert your VBScript to an .exe file, or rather make them look like one, there is a native Windows tool called IExpress which you can access through your menu's searchbar. Select Create new Self Extraction Directive file and choose Extract files and run an installation command afterwards. Enter a package title and decide whether ... Read more
You can use MS Windows' VBScript to write a script that is able to log into a remote mail server such as googlemail or any other with your account data and send mails from that server. This can be used to retrieve logs via attachments or to just automate mail processes. The bare script to ... Read more
While scripting, you may encouter the problem that you have an expression that uses double-quotes as tags and therefore cannot use any double-quotes inside these tags. You can circumvent this problem by using ASCII codes to add certain keys. This is done by tagging out, joining with ASCII code and joining with the tagged expression ... Read more