scripting

I'm having a hell of a time getting php to return a string. I don't know where they are going to install my batch file so I set the file location via %~dp0. there are 2 functions in my .php file, one to process color another to process Joomla's Version. The joomla one worked fine until I made...

Hi, I have been having an issue the past few months, but I have never really come up with a decent idea on how to work around it. It concerns a USB-hub that I'm using that my copy of Windows, for some reason, reinstalls every time I reboot the computer. I'm pretty sure that there must be some...

I'm having to create a set of batch files for a class. My instructor is no help. I have included the assignment. Is there anyone out there who can help me? 1. Create a batch file called DD.BAT. This batch file should display the files on the root of the HOMEWORK drive in date order with the...

I would like to know is it possible to make a cmd program in #C to monitor windows processes? CMD Starts and automatically sends tasklist command every 10 seconds. If new process starts during that 10 seconds it opens TXT or another CMD windows to inform me that process name and location...

Three times a week, John Savill tackles your most pressing IT questions. Today learn about using your own images to create a VM using PowerShell, wiping a disk when using the Windows PE environment, and how to execute a PowerShell script in Windows PE. Continue reading...

We are excited to announce a preview version of a brand new WinDbg. We’ve updated WinDbg to have more modern visuals, faster windows, a full-fledged scripting experience, built with the easily extensible debugger data model front and center. I’ll start this by saying that WinDbg Preview is using...

Hi all! I'm trying to execute a program(veracrypt) to open a volume thru ssh, but i can't, I've tried the runas command.. I'm running bitvise ssh and connection with juicessh (android).. Been trying for two days, but nothing.. .. Anybody that have any suggestions?

Looking for suggestions on tutorials. Can be anything, programming, scripting, network related, 'how does <blank> work'.

So I guess this is probably not the right place for this, but frankly I don't know where to look! I'm trying to get a list of folder contents (preferably including sub folders), so literally just the file names, exported as a text file or csv, or something that I can manipulate the data with...

In DOS batch scripts under Windows 7 there was a function "timeout" which stops the execution for n seconds. This command seems to be replaced by "sleep" in DOS batch scripts under Win10. Is this true? Peter

Hi folks, We use a bespoke piece of helpdesk software; unsure what's it written in but in it's own window (when active) the F9 key refreshes the list of tickets in the queue. Could someone please point me in the right direction to perhaps a piece of code or process or little application that...

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When pinning a program to the taskbar, when you launch it it runs the actual executable then the application either runs for the first time, or if it's already running but minimized to the tray, it has to handle that 2nd exe instance -> terminate the second one -> un-minimize the currently...

Assume I have a bootable USB flash drive with Win10 and additiional other tools on it.. Booting it works fine. Now immediately after booting from this USB flash drive I want to AUTOMATICALLY patch/enter some customized keys resp. values into the Registry. As an example think of switching to...

Hi, I have a Excel macro that copies a specific cell value. Is posible to execute it from another application without losing the focus? Thanks in advance. Regards, Jose Luis

hi I am trying to get PID from the foreground window, but this doesn't work because I am passing the wrong kind of handle to the function. This is under python. How do I fix this? thx! import ctypes import time time.sleep(2) handle = ctypes.windll.user32.GetForegroundWindow() print(handle)...

Hi, I am trying to extract information from one program, then import it into Excel. Well, the format it is extracted is not the format that is what I need. So, I have been manually deleting all the unneeded rows. My question is there a macro or C-Plus program that can delete these rows for me...

Using the command line, I would like to write a simple script that creates two folders C:\$X.~01 and C:\$X.~01 and then maybe uses the icacls command to set the permissions on both folders such that neither folder may be read, written or modified in any manner except specifically by a single...

Hey all! I'm a noob at writing batch files and have written a bunch, but my latest one is an odd one. I'm actually trying to break remote machines (for security reasons) by renaming the bootmgr system file and then shutting the machines down so they can no longer boot up. My batch file will map...

Hello, I'm new here, I'm wondering how I can integrate software in the Windows. For example, if I want to add an item to the context menu, in the explorer window, to send a file to an OLD folder. So, after click in «Send to Old» it would create a folder «yyyy-MM-dd - Old» in the same path of...