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Apr 16 2012

Slow Opening of Office Files through a Network

Published by under Windows

Your Excel files on remote networks take up to 2 minutes to load? You think there’s something wrong with your VPN or you need to tune Office? Not at all, here’s how to load your files in just a few seconds!   I couldn’t understand why my remote files were so slow to open from [...]

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Dec 07 2011

Merge Files in DOS

Published by under Windows

You can easily concatenate ascii or binary files with the Windows command prompt using COPY:   COPY /A file1.txt+file2.txt dest.txt COPY /B file1.bin+file2.bin dest.bin   Where dest is the destination filename

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Jan 16 2011

DFS Replication, Watch out!

Published by under Windows

Based on advice from a Microsoft techie, I decided to set up DFS (Distributed File System) on a few remote sites about a year ago. Sceptical at first, The rpoduct is so disappointing that I decided to warn people who haven’t made their mind up.   Here are 6 good reasons NOT to use DFS: [...]

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