Apr
16
2012
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 [...]
Tags: Excel, Latency, Microsoft, network, Office, performance, Remote files, share, Slow, Windows
Dec
07
2011
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
Tags: concatenate, DOS, merge, Windows
Jan
16
2011
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: [...]
Tags: DFS, replication, Windows