Hello, I have this VirtuMonde virus on my computer. I ran Spybot, Ad-aware and McAfee virus scan to see if I can clear it. I get certain things from Spybot but they usually reappear after I thought I deleted them. If you can help me get rid of this VirtuMonde plague I […]

A reader recently submitted a question about removing a strange virus. Although the question is a bit vague, I believe the Windows Guru has the solution for removing the Desktop_.ini virus.

I’ve received an interesting question about how to archive new files every day in an office setting. The solution that I’ve come up for this reader involves the creation of an event-driven script that can monitor a folder for newly created files and copy them to another location.

It can sometimes be very useful to have links in your web browser spawn third-party applications for you. A user recently submitted a question wanting to have a URL open an SSH connection with PuTTY. As he learned, this can be done by creating a custom URL protocol.

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So you’re working with WSH and you’re wondering how you can get or set the contents of the Windows clipboard. Unfortunately, WSH does not have this ability natively and there are no COM objects or WMI methods for performing this action either, but you’ll be happy to see this workaround that will let you […]

Properly constructed incremental backup schemes use a file’s archive bit to determine what files to include in each backup increment. Currently indexed files should have the archive bit set, while modified or newly created files should have it unset to mark them for inclusion in the next backup. The following code sample can […]