automation

The bank I work for is running IE 8 for security reasons and our users have 1 login to our lending software. I have managed to put together a simple batch file to launch our most used programs to start the day. The problem with 1 login is users have to use "new sessions" with IE 8 to allow...

hello, I need the simplest way to check if a file explorer window is active and move the selected files/folders in there to a specified temp folder. Any programming/scripting language will be fine. thanks.

Release Management for Visual Studio 2015 RC supports you to automate the deployment of applications across the desktop, the server, and the cloud. Link Removed

Hello, I am doing work on different network and always i have to change my ip manually, I want to change ip using .bat file ow can i do it? i Found netsh utility solution but it not works properly. please suggest me ..

While I blog about Visual Studio Extensions all the time, I don't cover Project and Item templates much. Why? Well they just don't seem as exciting or cool as Extensions, I guess. Every day we Click-New Item-... or Click-New Project... and pow, we have a new class or project. Quick, simple...

This week, we are in Germany for Hannover Messe 2015, the world’s top industrial technology trade fair. Industrial manufacturing relies on cutting-edge technology and Windows plays an increasingly vital role in that future. From plant operations to sales and marketing to global corporate...

Hi, I have a gargantuan wallpaper folder that I download wallpaper packs into every day. I've done this for years and that folder is... imposing to say the least. The problem is it's not sorted. The packs inside it are either a folder or an archive. I would like a program (PLEASE tell me one...

Hi: I am not sure if what I want to do is possible, but here goes: I would like to be able to create hotkeys within Win 8.1 with frequently used phrases, i.e., email address, postal address, name, and so on...Is it possible to do this within Windows or do I need an external program? If so, could...

For decades science fiction movies have been imagining the future as one where humans talk to machines just as naturally as they speak to family and friends. In reality, however, using voice to interact with machines has been maddeningly frustrating, with Siri often mistaking “open up my email”...

Hi friends, We have an application need to convert a file(txt) from the application into a pdf file. We have a batch file scheduled every night that generates this txt file from the application. In the batch file, we will be passing this txt file as input and also provide output file name...

This week was the kick off of a new event type, live from the Redmond campus... Connect("Live") Connect("Live") is a series of live streamed discussions directly from the Microsoft Redmond campus, giving you an opportunity to hear from the product teams building the developer tools &...

Module Browser, built on top of PowerShellGet, is a module management toolkit for PowerShell. Link Removed

'Virtual assistant' software like Cortana is becoming increasingly important, but should we be more concerned about the sort of technology that brings us closer to true artificial intelligence? The post Is Cortana a dangerous step towards artificial intelligence? appeared first on Digital Trends...

Link Removed, Michael Greene and Tiander Turpijn are back for Part 3 in our “Automation and DevOps” series and in today’s episode that give us an overview of PowerShell DSC (Desired State Configuration) and how it is relevant in a hybrid cloud scenario for on-premises and Microsoft Azure or in a...

Hello people, I would like to know if it's possible to setup a configuration with task manager that starts a p rogram as soon as it sees an executable in a directory. i.e : Lets say i have a file called adobe.exe and when I put it in a directory called C:\Adobe it should start automatically...

I did some Perl programming for simple text modifications. Mi CNC router reads a list of numbers and moves its motors accordingly (X, Y and Z axes). I need to change some of these numbers. My Perl program does that. But I would like to do the same in Windows (modify a simple text list). How can...

I'd like to run a program only on certain days of the week, and only on shutdown on those days. If this is possible, how can ZI do this? Thanks!

Is there a script to click on link. I want to use it in outlook. I created a rule to search for a specific word in body of email. If outlook finds that word the script has to click on it.

Is there a script to auto click on hyperlink

Dropbox is so convenient that I recently bought 1 tb space. So I am trying to make use of its large space. Here is my question. I use mainly "My Documents" folder (in Win 7 and 8 computers) for creating, updating and modifying files everyday. Then I MANUALLY sync the same My Documents...