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If you want to control your mouse pointer with the keyboard, Windows XP provides a way:
Press Alt+Left Shift+Num Lock all at once and a prompt will appear telling you that you have activated mousekeys, select ok then you can control the mouse with the numpad.
The controls are: 1,2,3,4,6,7,8,9 = move the mouse5 = mouse button […]

To view all the currently running processes in windows from the command line, you can use the command ‘tasklist’. The output will look something like this:
F:\>tasklist
Image Name PID Session Name Session# Mem Usage
===================== ====== […]

To terminate a process from the command line of windows, use the taskkill command:
When you know the name of the image to stop:
taskkill /IM notepad.exe
Or when you know the process ID, eg 784:
taskkill /PID 784
For more usage variants, type taskkill /?
NB: some of this information about what processes are running can be obtained by the […]

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 […]

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 […]

Here’s a little privacy hack for users running Windows XP. If you have a hard drive with some kind of mildly sensitive information on it, then you can stop it appearing in My Computer but you’ll still be able to access it by installing a utility that Microsoft created, Tweak UI. It allows you to […]