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Uncrippling Windows XP’s IIS 5.1

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Testing an ASP.NET application on an XP box can be a royal pain in the ass sometimes (Ok, most of the time). It’s version of IIS is the idiot brother of the ...

RE: Why is the DOS path character "\"?

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It all stems from Microsoft’s relationship with IBM.  For DOS 1.0, DOS only supported floppy disks. Many of the DOS utilities (except for command.com)...

Autoruns, a must have utility

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One of the best sources of free Windows system utilities is Sysinternals. Their Autoruns utility shows everything that gets auto-started when you machine boo...