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PowerShell: Extracting certain lines in any file

anton — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 23:09:59 +0000

I had quite a large file that I needed to parse, and the challenge was to extract certain lines that didn’t match a certain condition. The solution . . . PowerShell, like so:

select-string -path filename -notmatch "criteria" | foreach {$_.line} | out-file -filepath filename -encoding ascii

That’s it!

Cut-and-paste not working via RDP

anton — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 20:10:38 +0000

Cut-and-paste wasn’t working from me between my RDP session to an XP box from my Windows 7 box. Apparently, the problem was rdpclip.exe wasn’t running. So, if you come across the same issue, check for that process and turn it on if necessary via Run > type rdpclip.

Using Visual SourceSafe 2005 with Visual Studio 2010

anton — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 21:07:52 +0000

You may notice that when you attempt to add your solution to a source control in Visual Studio 2010, that it only shows a TFS server as a choice. Don’t be alarmed, however, just:

1. Go to Tools > Options.

2. Click Show all settings if not checked, then go to Source Control.

3. Go to Plug-in Selection, then change the dropdown to Microsoft Visual SourceSafe.

4. That’s it!

Happy Trailing!

How-to: Bypass a WSUS server

anton — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 01:10:47 +0000

As long as you have administrative access on your work computer, all you have to do is change the following key to ‘0’ (from ‘1’): UseWUServer under the following location in the registry:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU

Hope this helps someone out there.

How to enable or disable Quick Launch in Windows 7

anton — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 23:18:57 +0000

Just adding this for archival purposes…

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/888-quick-launch-enable-disable.html