Robocopy GUI – for the faint hearted

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So you did not grow up with MS-DOS 3.2 like the rest of us, and when it comes to copying files you stick to the good old Windows Explorer.  Well that is all well and good, however if you suddenly need to copy a LARGE number of files or some very large files this can become an issue, the error handeling capabilities of Windows Explorer just aint that great. You may have heard about Robocopy, a cool little – rather old by now – utility from Microsoft. Robocopy stands for Robust file copy, and it has the ability to mirror directories event down to ntfs rights, very nifty (I have used it since the good NT4 days) however it’s a good old MS-DOS commandline utility so you have to write pages with switches to tweak it just for your task. To my amazement however I just realized that Microsoft actually released a GUI for the util back in 2006 :-) well well, so now there is no excuse not to use it and save yourself a lot of time and pain.. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc160891.aspx Now Robocopy is a VERY nice utility and still the most reliable I know of, however as mentioned in an earlier post Terracopy is quite a competitor, and I would be sure not to miss giving it a go too (its somewhat easier to work with). http://www.codesector.com/teracopy.php
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Scheduling issues – back to good old NT4

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In this day in age everything has wizards, this also being true for creating a new scheduled job on a server. 

Now I did not research this in great detail, so bare with me if I overlooked something, but I had problems omitting an account and password when creating a new scheduled job.  I wanted to create a schedule witch would run under the systems account, and let me tell you it got old REALLY fast, damn wizard would not let me create the job.

So back to the good old dos AT command I think, but wait I thought was there not an old utility in NT4 that had some kind of GUI..  Google->Search->Found :-)

ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/ResKit/nt4/x86/winat/winat.exe

So if you like me experience problems with those damn modern wizards, download this and be happy (its even a bit nostalgic to work with an NT4 util again :-))..

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International TV – right for your favorites

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Do you have your friends from oversea come to visit, do they hate to miss just a single episode of their local “wheel of fortune – tv show”, well try this site on for size;

http://www.wherever.tv

It even offer a gadget that will omit your pc and stream right to your TV, a bit steep though.

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