batch scripts

Tuesday, November 3, 2009
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How To Really Browse Without Leaving A Trace

4:30AM The How-To Geek | Think that your browser’s private mode keeps your browsing completely private? Not so! More often than not, you’re still leaving traces of your browsing session behind, and today we’ll tell you how to get rid of them for truly private browsing. More »
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Friday, July 24, 2009
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Unofficial Chrome Extension Manager Enables Or Disables Add-ons

4:00AM The How-To Geek | Windows only: Until Google graces us with a real extension manager, an enterprising user put together an impressive batch file that can handle enabling, disabling or even uninstalling Google Chrome extensions. More »
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Thursday, July 9, 2009
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Use Relative Paths In Your Batch Files

4:00AM The How-To Geek | Reader Paul writes in with an interesting tip for using relative paths in a batch file: you can use a special code to represent the current path—useful for batch files on a Flash drive. More »
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Friday, February 1, 2008

Quick-Kill Multiple Programs with Batch Files

7:10AM Kevin Purdy | The CyberNet weblog follows up on their previous tip for creating quick-kill shortcuts for individual programs in Windows by expanding the idea to an automated batch file that kills off a bunch of programs at once. The batch script is smart enough to skip any apps you don’t have open, and makes it easy to strip down running programs to grab the most power from your system, for Photoshop, games, or other resource-intensive apps. The basic trick is to open the Windows Task Manager, find the executable names (like firefox.exe) of the apps you want to kill, then open a simple text editor and add a line for each app, like so: taskkill /im program.exe Replace program.exe with the ones you want to kill, save the text file with a .bat extension, and you’ve got a quick streamlining app. Ready to take the next step? Take a look at setting up working environments with batch files. Shortcut to Close Multiple Programs [CyberNet] More »
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