Recent content by SlickRCBD

That works fine on Windows 98SE and Windows 7, but I tried it on Windows 10 and it had no effect. I even tried a gpupdate /force and rebooted. I altered the first scrollbar value under Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Colors to 200 200 250 and the second under...

I'm not sure of the correct terminology here as Microsoft keeps changing it and well, I tend to think in terms used by Apple in GS/OS (the Apple IIGS operating system, although very similar to the Mac's System 6.0.8) back on my first computer. On the scrollbar is a shaded region that shows...

Is there a wildcard I could use to exclude the appdata directories? I'm just trying to figure out how to make this command. Originally I used robocopy c:\users d:\ /e /copyall /z /DCopy:DAT /R:3 /W:5 So what exactly would you use to "exclude hidden items as well as anything in...

How would you structure the command then? Notice that in what I did I tried to use a single command to back up the entire \users tree at once. Also keep in mind that there is more than a terabyte of data, so I'm going to want to start the computer on this and walk away, I'm not going to stick...

I have a system that refuses to boot to Windows 10 Professional (64-bit), and I think I need to do a reinstall. The advanced boot options is available, but it will not go into safe mode. I can however get the command line, and it recognizes both robocopy and xcopy. Assume that C is the hard...