Windows Guru fans the world around will be pleased to know that you can now follow most of my activity thanks to Twitter. I’m now using the social networking site designed to help people stay in touch as a convenient means of tracking my various contributions across the Internet. Now it’s easier to stay up to date on the latest Windows Guru contributions such as published articles, noteworthy forum posts, and more. So for all of my latest and greatest Windows and Windows Scripting material, be sure to follow me on Twitter!

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Today I’m going to show you another method of hiding a logical volume in My Computer or Windows Explorer using Local Group Policies. This is useful because the setting can be made on a per user basis. Read more… »

There are many reasons why you might want to hide or remove a logical disk volume in Windows. Perhaps you are maintaining a backup partition and want to hide it to help ensure its integrity. In any case, removing a logical disk volume in Windows is a pretty simple procedure. Read more… »

The Luhn Algorithm is a simple checksum formula that is used to verify a variety of different numbers including most credit cards. Outside of verifying funds it provides the most accurate means of verifying credit card numbers by preventing typographical errors. Read more… »

Have you ever had a frequently used folder such as a web root or download folder that you had to navigate to on a regular basis and wished you could just access using a drive letter? Did you know that it is very possible and quite easy to map a drive letter to a local folder? Let the Windows Guru show you how to have this up and running in under thirty seconds! Read more… »

When creating web pages and WSH scripts that send email it sometimes necessary to test the IIS SMTP service to ensure that it is properly handling and sending email. The technique I’ll be demonstrating today can be used locally or for testing the SMTP service on a remote server. Read more… »

As the Windows Guru, I spend a lot of time in forums answering Windows and Windows Scripting related questions. Quite frequently I respond to users who are receiving some form of an error message–and in almost every case, the error message is incomplete or incorrectly worded. For obvious reasons this makes diagnosis difficult, but it’s also completely avoidable. Today I’m going to show you two quick tips for little known Windows keyboard shortcuts that will ensure that you never have to retype the contents of an error message again! Read more… »

In early 2008, I created a simple PHP driven tool for changing the prefix on a MySQL table. The was originally designed to change the default prefix used by phpBB installations to help prevent SQL injection attacks. The tool has gained quite a bit of popularity and I’ve been receiving a lot of searches for it so I decided to release it on Nilpo.com. Read more… »

Many scripters have gotten all too used to using the WScript object’s Sleep method for pausing or delaying script execution. Since this object isn’t available in ASP, Windows Script Components, or HTML Applications, programmers are required to create viable alternatives. Read more… »

Despite the fact that this is a Windows site, I often get questions that aren’t Windows related. For example, on several occasions I’ve received questions about clearing or resetting the parental control passcode on Sony’s PlayStation 2 (PS2) consoles. Since I’ve received the question on a number of occasions, I decided to go ahead and post the solution. Read more… »