Improve the performance of XP and Vista--at least a little bit--by running its built-in disk defragmenter with your choice of command switches. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology ...

Here is a useful “How-To” that I have missed using for some time. It’s an oldie, but a goodie. Surely there are those of us that sometimes brave the innards of Vista’s GUI to do a little command line ...

To use the Get Help command-line tool, you have to download it from the official Microsoft website. The Get Help command-line utility is for Microsoft 365 administrators. If you are a normal user, ...

GUIs are great—we wouldn’t want to live without them. But if you’re a Mac or Linux user and you want to get the most out of your operating system (and your keystrokes), you owe it to yourself to get ...

MEncoder has supported video encoding for a long time with the MPlayer Project and FFmpeg, which also now is part of MPlayer. Transcode is a new command-line tool on the horizon for video and audio ...

If a device driver is causing issues on your computer, you can uninstall that driver using Command Prompt in Windows 11 via the Recovery Environment. You do not need to open the Device Manager to ...

Everyone knows that Linux makes a great Web server. Some network administrators even use it in conjunction with Samba to create file servers that Windows workstations can access as easily as Windows ...

In the April 2017 issue, I wrote about how to use ticketing systems as a sysadmin to organize your tasks better. In that article, I made a brief reference to the fact that I've integrated some of my ...

Become a more effective SEO by learning how to leverage the command line to improve your workflows with shortcuts and automations. Although not an essential skill, the proliferation of coding in SEO ...