From the monthly archives:

November 2009

An easy move from XP to Windows 7

November 27, 2009
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I was contacted a few weeks back by Laplink. They gave me a free license of their PC Mover to try out.
Usually, I throw these requests away, but I have used various utilities from Laplink since the early 90s (Anyone remember those Laplink cables!?), and I really like this company. Still…it is a risk [...]

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Send mail from your bat files

November 17, 2009
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Two weeks ago, I wrote about backing up a remote windows machine using Remote Desktop.
One thing lacking from this solution is email notification. How do we know if the backup job started? Or finished?
There is a free and open source tool that can be used to solve this problem, it is called blat. It consists [...]

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Date and time stamp in your batch files

November 11, 2009
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Update 11-12-2009: Looks like I made a typo. The date should be extracted with this line:
%date:~-4,4%%date:~-10,2%%date:~-7,2%
I have updated the article below, and thanks to Jim.G for noticing it!
There has been some activity recently in an old 2007 post I wrote about creating a date and time stamp in your batch files.
Well, the [...]

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Secure remote backup using remote desktop

November 5, 2009
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I have been playing around with a few ideas on how to backup a server I have that is on the other side of town.
One of the problems I have is that the Internet provider blocks VPN traffic, and most other ways I know of getting a secure connection.
The one thing I can do [...]

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