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Create Report with Information on All Drives with Letters - AutoHotkey Script

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This article presents an AutoHotkey (V1) script that creates a plain text report with information about all drives in a system that have a drive letter, such as C, D, E, etc. The information in the report is Type of drive, Status, Capacity, Free Space, File System, Volume Label, and Serial Number.
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Detect USB Drive Insertion and Deletion - AutoHotkey Script

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This article presents an AutoHotkey (V1) script that detects when a USB drive is inserted or removed. It displays a pop-up dialog and makes a logfile entry in each case. It provides a system tray (notification area) icon with context menu choices to open the logfile or terminate (exit) the script.
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Downloads

Automatically download files from the web - AutoHotkey Script

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In a recent question here at Experts Exchange about Windows 10 automation, a member asked for a solution "to download one by one automatically" 10 specific files from the Internet. This article presents an AutoHotkey script with the solution, enhanced to allow any number of files to be downloaded.
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Sample Title Case Conversion

Exclude words when converting to "Title Case" - AutoHotkey Script

In a recent question here at Experts Exchange, a member wants to enhance an AutoHotkey script that performs "Title Case" conversion. The enhancement is to allow specification of words that are excluded from the capitalization (conjunctions and prepositions). This article presents such a solution.
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Nine-Monitor Configuration

Keyboard shortcuts (hotkeys) to move mouse in multi-monitor configuration - AutoHotkey Script

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In configurations with multiple monitors, it can be difficult and time-consuming to move the mouse pointer to a particular monitor. This article presents a script written in AutoHotkey that defines hotkeys — such as Alt+Ctrl+1, Alt+Ctrl+2, etc. — to move the mouse easily and quickly to any monitor.
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AutoHotkey Switch-Case

AutoHotkey Switch-Case

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Many programming languages have a Switch–Case capability. Since its first beta in 2003, AutoHotkey has not had one. Finally, in the recent 28-Sep-2019 release of Version 1.1.31.00, it now has Switch–Case. This article discusses it and shows a sample usage as applied to a previous post here at EE.
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MoveAllWindows

How to move all windows on one monitor to another monitor with one keystroke - AutoHotkey Script

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An EE member wants to move all open windows at once (not one window at a time) from a primary monitor to a secondary one by pressing a hotkey. Bonus: another hotkey that goes in the other direction — move all windows from the secondary to the primary monitor. This article presents such a solution.
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How to download number of Views, Endorsements, Points for Experts Exchange Articles and Videos

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This is my 100th publication at EE — 56 articles and 44 videos. To mark the occasion, I wrote a program to download the Title, Views, Endorsements, and Points for the specified URLs of articles and videos. Based on feedback, I enhanced the program to include number of Comments and Date Published.
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Automating Cisco Router/Switch changes with Python and Netmiko

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A guide on the process of automating change or gathering data from multiple Cisco IOS devices. If this can help you - please use it. God knows we all need a few extra minutes in our day.
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Angular 6 Jumpstart

Jump Start in Angular 6

In this article, we will discuss how to start development in Angular 6.
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Angular 6

New Features Introduced in Angular 6

In this article, we will discuss the new features which are introduced into the Angular 6 version.
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Exchange 2010/2013 CrossForest group Migration made easy

In an Exchange Crossforest migration, the distribution groups can be a very complex operation that would cause loss of time, lots of issues and continued headaches if not solved in a timely manner. I had to do a similar project so I created a script to ease this process.
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Speaker unmuted and muted

How to create an on/off toggle to mute the system audio/sound with a single mouse click or single keystroke

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In a question here at Experts Exchange, a member was looking for "a little app that would allow sound to be turned OFF and ON by simply clicking on an icon in the system tray". This article shows how to achieve that, as well as providing the same OFF/ON audio muting toggle via a single keystroke.
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Measuring Server's processing rate with a simple powershell command.

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Measuring Server's processing rate with a simple powershell command. The differences in processing rate also was recorded in different use-cases, when a server in free and busy states.
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7 Sure Fire Ways To Improve Your Web Performance Strategy

Originally, this post was published on Monitis Blog, you can check it here.



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GetTickCount64

How to solve the problem of incorrect System Uptime being reported when a system has been up for a long time

The Windows functions GetTickCount and timeGetTime retrieve the number of milliseconds since the system was started. However, the value is stored in a DWORD, which means that it wraps around to zero every 49.7 days. This article shows how to solve that problem by using the GetTickCount64 function.
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PowerShell Script to check file version across the network

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A quick Powershell script I wrote to find old program installations and check versions of a specific file across the network.
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EE Question ID

How to copy the short link of an ID at Experts Exchange to the clipboard with a single keystroke

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In threads here at EE, each comment has a unique Identifier (ID). It is easy to get the full path for an ID via the right-click context menu. However, we often want to post a short link within a thread rather than the full link. This article shows a technique for doing this with a single keystroke.
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Force Active Directory Replication Now

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Active Directory replication delay is the cause to many problems.  Here is a super easy script to force Active Directory replication to all sites with by using an elevated PowerShell command prompt, and a tool to verify your changes.
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GraphicsMagick

Convert a multi-page PDF file into multiple image files

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This article shows how to convert a multi-page PDF file into multiple image files, with one image file created for each page of the PDF. It does this by utilizing an excellent, free software package called GraphicsMagick. The solution is amazingly simple — a single line of code!

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