Once per minute, Windows 7 writes a timestamp to disk. This enables diagnostic tools to check whether and when Windows has been shut down unexpectedly. For home usage, you can safely disable the timestamp. This reduces write access to your hard disk.
Tag: command prompt
How-to: Enable the telnet command in Windows 7
Using the telnet command, tech-savvy ones can remote control other computers or check HTTP, SMTP, POP3 and more plain-text connections over the web, by using the telnet command. Though, apparently this command has been removed in Windows 7. It has not.
Windows 7: Cancel command line operations
Some DOS commands take a while for running through. If you don’t want to wait until the command has finished running, you can cancel it.