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Count number of users who logged on to workstation in the last month (with Batch script)

By Tomas Dabasinskas, on September 8th, 2010, 2 comments

Recently at my job I've got a task to write script/program to count how many users had logged to workstation in the last month. While my colleague tried to complete this task with C#, I've decided to use old good Batch. In fact, I was thinking about using PowerShell at first, but since all computers this script will be run in runs Windows XP and doesn't have PowerShell installed. To accomplish what I want I've found out about VBS script called EVENTQUERY which exists in Windows XP. After reading documentation I've decided that it would allow me to do . . . → Read More: Count number of users who logged on to workstation in the last month (with Batch script)

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Look Ma, I’m using PowerShell

By Tomas Dabasinskas, on August 23rd, 2010, One comment

Why? Couple of days ago I decided to filter some of my music and upload it to my HTC HD2. I was using Windows Media Player (WMP) for that. I haven’t noticed that WMP converted all uploaded songs to WMA. Problem was that many of uploaded files were unable to play on my phone (neither by using HTC Player nor WMMP). I decided to upload all my favorite songs (ones I’ve already filtered before) one more time but this time directly to my MicroSD card as MP3. The worst thing was that I haven’t all my filtered songs (well . . . → Read More: Look Ma, I’m using PowerShell

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