Add program to startup

You can add a program to startup in two ways: place the program or a shortcut to it in the startup folder, or register startup in the registry. Startup from folder Startup folder for current user only: % USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup Startup folder for all users:...


Restoring file associations by default

ANI Animated cursor AudioCD Audio CD protocol AVI Video file BAT Command line script BIN Binary BMP Image CAB Windows Archive CHM Help file CMD Command line script COM MS-DOS Application CRL Certificate Revocation List CSS Cascading Style Sheet CUR Cursor DIAGCAB Windows Error Diagnostics...


Find out the Windows activation key

VBS script to determine key, ID and Windows version.


Enabling the Group Policy Editor

Group Policy Editor is missing from Home and some other editions of Windows. To install it, we execute the following code on the command line one by one: FOR %F IN ("%SystemRoot%\servicing\Packages\Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy-ClientTools-Package~*.mum") DO (DISM /Online /NoRestart /Add-Package:"%F") FOR %F IN ("%SystemRoot%\servicing\Packages\Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy-ClientExtensions-Package~*.mum") DO (DISM /Online /NoRestart...


Get information about your computer with WMI

WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation) is a technology for monitoring and managing systems and computer components. You can get information from WMI using the standard console utility wmic.exe. General information wmic computersystem get /format: list Operating system wmic os get /format: list Users wmic useraccount get...