When a user accidentally deletes a local file, having a backup ready can significantly minimize downtime and frustration. Check out this simple batch file that can make daily document backups a snap.

Back to a little summer cleanup of the music collection. My OCD is making me get all the artwork cleaned up. Every album should have a folder.jpg at a minimum, and that artwork should be embedded in ...

Attaching a remote drive or directory on a Windows box is called “drive mapping” though the process is essentially the same as what we call mounting in the Unix world. While I rarely spend any ...

The earliest business computer systems developed in the 1950s demonstrated their efficiency by processing records in large batches. In the 1960s, equipment makers introduced interactive terminals, ...

In this example, we assume you want to defrag 4 drives. You need to edit the list to match the drives that you want to defragment using the batch file. If you want to defrag just one drive, then ...

So I'm creating a batch file that is appending output into another batch file from a few different commands. But when I do this a line break, carriage return is placed in the file creating a problem ...

Most of us are familiar with the Command Prompt and its basic commands. We usually execute a set of commands to complete a task or obtain some information. But this can also be done with the help of a ...