When it comes to scripts, most people think about VBScript versus JScript or some other difference in language. However, the scripting environment has two main components: a language interpreter and a host environment (what I roughly describe as...
The Java ICA Client and Drive Mapping ...
Windows shell scripting is a powerful language that can introduce you to the world of scripting. Even if you’ve never written code before, you can quickly perform tasks that would take much longer to perform in the GUI. In the next 10 lessons, I...
As I prepared this column, the first of the new millennium, I pored over the 52 Windows 2000 Magazine UPDATE commentaries from last year. It's amazing how much ground we covered and difficult to wrap one's mind around it all. Obviously, the...
In the last issue, I discussed Microsoft Office and its .NET-oriented successors, all based on the NetDocs technology being developed in Redmond. Microsoft, realizing that third-party support will make or break .NET and that the company must...
For many people, the word "Microsoft" is synonymous with "Windows," but...
I received a call this week from a friend who was in town visiting his family for the holidays. He had been installing game software on his Windows 2000 Professional-equipped notebook, and something he did had completely hosed the computer. The...
When you press the PRINT SCREEN key from a Command prompt or DOS program, the contents of the desktop is copied to the Clipboard...