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How to stop .avi files from locking up in Windows Explorer

1 Comment Published 2 years, 6 months ago in Tips and Windows

If you’ve downloaded a corrupt .avi file in Windows then you may have noticed that if you try to delete, rename or move it that explorer complains that the file is in use. This is because Windows is trying to load the whole file to generate a preview image for you. You can turn this […]

Output redirection to a file from the Windows Command Line

2 Comments Published 2 years, 6 months ago in Tips and Windows

This tip will show you how to write the output of a command at the Windows command line to a file. It’s not hard (infact it’s one of the very basics of command line programming).
Start Command Line within Windows by choosing Start->Run then entering ‘cmd’ and pressing enter.
Suppose you want to capture the output from […]

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