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 ...

As mentioned earlier, a batch file contains a series of DOS commands and are used to automate the frequently performed tasks. Thus, you don’t have to repeatedly write the same commands. Remember the ...

Computers are great at automating repetitive tasks, right? But many of us encoding professionals spend a great deal of time repeating the same actions again and again. We point-and-click to set the ...

Windows: If you download files you only need once or twice and then forget about, you downloads folder can get cluttered. Use this batch file to automatically delete those files on a schedule. Many of ...

I have been tasked at my new job for finding a way to monitor server space on our many servers, originally I thought of something like Spiceworks, but the lead programmer/admin for this wants ...

Last week’s README file demonstrated how easy it is to turn virtually any desktop machine into an SFTP server. Today’s piece shows how to automate a well-known Windows open source SFTP client using ...

I think it can be done with a small batchfile but I'm not sure how to implement a time specific pause. Could anyone be so kind to give me an example? I would also be very interested in hearing your ...