about 1 year ago - 2 comments
Hello Boys and Girls, It seems other companies aside from Apple are putting their thinking caps on and breaking all kinds of molds. There was a mold. Apple didn’t exactly break the mold for tablets, as shown in this nifty diagram. All they did was scale it up. An overgrown cellphone won’t last very long…
about 2 years ago - 7 comments
Please follow this email chain between myself and our friend Karl AKA ATA. ————————————— ME Here’s the scenario…. Backed up info off old laptop to external HD. During XP install I saw two identical drives…nuked the first partition and tried to install. XP said no. Nuked the 2nd one…XP allowed the install. JOY!!! You know…
about 2 years ago - 7 comments
So you don’t want to dole out the big bucks for some fancy smancy cd/dvd authoring suite just to burn cd’s and disk images? Or how about you don’t want the bloat from said suite? No it’s probably that you are just like me and a big cheapskate when it comes to buying software! Either…
about 2 years ago - 4 comments
Have you ever wanted to talk to your computer? You know like “Music On” or “Kill Stupid Flanders!” Well in Windows Vista, you can! And it is as easy as this: Click the Start menu >> Click Control Panel >> Click Speech Recognition. >> Click Start Speech Recognition >> Now you can tell your computer…
about 2 years ago - 2 comments
Yes, we know you have taken a million digital photos over the last year, on your fancy shmancy new camera. And we also know the holiday season is almost upon us. Being the geek that you are, you could not just leave your pictures named digital_image_13456.jpg for your slide shows… We just couldn’t have that…
about 2 years ago - 2 comments
Tired of your standard Windows Startup and Shutdown tunes? If you’re like me, you use your Windows-based computer almost every day. The startup and shutdown sounds have just gotten a little boring to be honest. Here are some simple steps to use your favorite voice, music excerpt, or sound for your computer’s start-up and shutdown…
about 2 years ago - 3 comments
James from Virginia wanted to know if it was safe to delete these Thumbs.db and .DS_Store files from his network. Check out our answer and step by step removal tips. Running in a mixed Windows/Mac environment I find it annoying to deal with all the little artifacts the great OS’s leave behind. All of our…
about 2 years ago - 1 comment
By default your windows XP machine shows the Printers and Faxes share along with the Scheduled Tasks folder. You can make use of the scheduled tasks folder like this or use a remote printer share to quickly install a remote printer. Some people like this, most people don’t use it and a few people REALLY…
about 2 years ago - 8 comments
Hello Boys and Girls, Commodore 64 here to bring you another horror story from binary-land. Lord knows I’ve been through hell and back with computers. Overheating CPUs, which were fixed by the cold of the winter outside my apt; crashing hard drives which were fixed or accessed by various means; faulty power supplies, which had…
about 2 years ago - 10 comments
MJ writes to us that her machine runs updates around lunch time and she keeps getting the prompt do you want to restart now? Not only is it annoying – sometimes she clicks yes by accident and her whole world comes crashing down. (See the fix for this at the bottom of the post –…
about 4 years ago
Alternative file browsers such as ExplorerXP or freeCommander (and I am sure many others) allow one to do that as either an “Edit” menu option or keyboard command.
about 3 years ago
Alternative file browsers such as ExplorerXP or freeCommander (and I am sure many others) allow one to do that as either an "Edit" menu option or keyboard command.
about 3 years ago
Try Ninotech Path Copy
http://home.worldonline.dk/ninotech/freeutil.htm “>http://home.worldonline.dk/ninotech/freeutil.htm
about 3 years ago
Try Ninotech Path Copy
http://home.worldonline.dk/ninotech/freeutil.htm “>http://home.worldonline.dk/ninotech/freeutil.htm
about 3 years ago
also clipboard path
http://stefan.bertels.org/en/clipboardpath “>http://stefan.bertels.org/en/clipboardpath
about 3 years ago
also clipboard path
http://stefan.bertels.org/en/clipboardpath “>http://stefan.bertels.org/en/clipboardpath
about 3 years ago
I use shell tools, by Moon Software, which can be found here
ads a “copy file name” instruction into the Windows context menu
about 3 years ago
Does it work on XP Scott?
about 3 years ago
Sorry about that Joe, was answering the last question to the article, “Anyone have a way to add this functionality to XP?”
The answer is Yes! I’m using it right now on XP.
Cheers…
about 3 years ago
For XP, I use a dinky little program called Clickie, available from http://www.defoortsoftware.com/ , which puts “Copy Path Name” and “Open MS-DOS Prompt” into the right context menu for all files. It couldn’t be easier, and I’d be lost without it!
about 3 years ago
Hate to repeat myself but does it work with XP Diana?
about 3 years ago
I am using simple “Path Copy to Clipboard” shell extension from Mike Lin -> http://www.mlin.net/other.shtml
Small, easy and working like a charm.
about 3 years ago
AWESOME! U the man. I love this site!
about 3 years ago
Here’s another free shell add-on: http://www.freewarebb.com/Copy-Path-Clipboard-12-file5639.html
about 3 years ago
Guess that’s why I put “For XP” at the beginning of my paragraph, huh?! :)