Monthly Archives: August 2012

Add a favourite to Internet Explorer

Posted on Friday 31 August 2012 by richardsiddaway

Way back in this post http://msmvps.com/blogs/richardsiddaway/archive/2011/06/27/modifying-favourites.aspx I mentioned about adding a new favourite.  Favourites are special folders and one way to work with them is through the old COM objects function add-favourite{ [CmdletBinding()] param( [parameter(Mandatory=$true)] [string]$name, [ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()] [string]$url ) BEGIN{}#begin … Continue reading →

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Windows 8 tip: 1 Weather app

Posted on Saturday 25 August 2012 by richardsiddaway

The Windows 8 start screen has a nice looking app to display the weather. You can search for towns and cities to add to the display. My home town (or even the nearest big town) doesn’t show in the results … Continue reading →

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Windows 8 Networking cmdlets

Posted on Saturday 25 August 2012 by richardsiddaway

Windows 8 brings PowerShell v3 and a whole bunch of PowerShell modules.  One such module is NETTCPIP and as the name suggests is about networking. PowerShell v3 automatically loads modules for you so as soon as PowerShell opens try PS> … Continue reading →

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Windows 8 Upgrade experience: #2 Old files

Posted on Thursday 23 August 2012 by richardsiddaway

When you do an upgrade or a new install on a system that already has Windows installed you get a Windows.old folder left behind with a whole bunch of stuff you no longer need. The permissions aren’t reset so you … Continue reading →

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What’s wrong with the Kindle app for Windows 8

Posted on Tuesday 21 August 2012 by richardsiddaway

A few things really including: If you sign out you lose any downloads! There doesn’t appear to be any way to read kindle format ebooks obtained from other sources. In other words you are locked into Amazon If you sync … Continue reading →

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Windows 8 upgrade experience: #1

Posted on Tuesday 21 August 2012 by richardsiddaway

I’ve upgraded two machines to Windows 8 The first is my main working laptop: Windows 8 Enterprise can’t do an in place upgrade of Windows 7 Ultimate. So had to re-install all my applications. Took the opportunity to upgrade to … Continue reading →

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PowerShell v3 goodness

Posted on Sunday 19 August 2012 by richardsiddaway

Downloaded and installed PowerShell v3 and its associated new operating system (Windows 8) from MSDN in the week. One nice new cmdlet is Unblock-File. Download a bunch of files from the Internet and you have to unblock them.  Its now … Continue reading →

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