Tag Archives: windows

Calling Powershell scripts from Launchy

By Matthew Taylor | November 9, 2007

Powershell is very cool, but I have had a helluva time calling powershell scripts directly from Launchy. If you would like to know how I finally figured out how to nail down this capability, read on.
The Problem
The problem is not Launchy, but that it can be very painful to execute a powershell script unless [...]


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Create a new email in MS Outlook with Launchy

By Matthew Taylor | September 26, 2007

I realized recently that I was never looking at my Outlook application when I wanted to start a new email to someone, and I had no quick-and-easy way to launch a new email message. So after a quick search Google search, I found this site with instructions on how to do many things in [...]


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Microsoft Sysinternals

By Matthew Taylor | June 14, 2007

I was chatting with an old acquaintance from high school who now works at Microsoft at on XBox Live Arcade. I showed him this blog, and he was giving me some tips on using Windows as a development environment. He let me know that aliases can be set in the Windows cmd (see [...]


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Using Launchy and batch shortcuts for navigation

By Matthew Taylor | June 12, 2007

I don’t like Windows links (.lnk). They are useful to create shortcuts to other places in the filesystem, but they lack meat. You can’t do much else with them. And the way I use them with Launchy, all I want to do is put them somewhere that Launchy can find them and [...]


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Finding Windows XP process ID

By Matthew Taylor | June 11, 2007

I don’t know if this is a good habit or not, but I’ve grown very comfortable in Linux killing processes by id. The easiest way to do this is to call ‘ps -ef’, pipe it, and grep by the process name. For example, if you want to find out the process id of [...]


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