This is a trick I love so much and use all the time. Thru command Line there is a way to get Dell Service Tags Remotely with-out disturbing the user. I know right pretty sweet.
1. Click start and type CMD
2. Right click on command prompt and run as administrator
3. In command Prompt type: wmic /user:admin-account /node:remote-computer bios get serialnumber and hit enter
4. type in the password for the admin account and hit enter
5. YOUR DONE!!
Yeah its that easy!!
Friday, January 31, 2014
Tuesday, January 28, 2014
Exporting Power Profiles
This is a simple task that can save you time when bringing up a new computer or even if you are in a corporate environment imaging several computers at the same time. I will be writing this how to for windows 7 users but the same thing should work in windows 8
1. Click start
2. Type CMD into the search bar
3. Right-click on CMD.exe and choose "Run as Administrator"
4. In there you need to input: powercfg list
5. A list of power profiles will come up look for the one you want to export and copy the GUID for it (long string of numbers and letters)
6. Now you need to type powercfg -export "%UserProfile%\Desktop\What you want to call your power profile.pow" GUID
7. Now you need to copy the .pow file you just made over to your new computer
8. On the new computer open CMD the same way you did it before and type:
powercfg -import "Path to the copied .pow file"
9. Press enter and you are done all you need to do now is go into the power settings and select the profile you just created.
1. Click start
2. Type CMD into the search bar
3. Right-click on CMD.exe and choose "Run as Administrator"
4. In there you need to input: powercfg list
5. A list of power profiles will come up look for the one you want to export and copy the GUID for it (long string of numbers and letters)
6. Now you need to type powercfg -export "%UserProfile%\Desktop\What you want to call your power profile.pow" GUID
7. Now you need to copy the .pow file you just made over to your new computer
8. On the new computer open CMD the same way you did it before and type:
powercfg -import "Path to the copied .pow file"
9. Press enter and you are done all you need to do now is go into the power settings and select the profile you just created.
YOU DON'T NEED WINZIP!!!
I've started to notice that a lot of people still use WinZip. From large companies to home users all still using this awful outdated piece of software to do something that windows has the ability to do out of the box. Thats right I said windows can do it WITHOUT any third party software and better yet ITS SO EASY!
Here is how:
Zipping
1. Take the file or folder that you want to zip and right click it.
2. Go to send to and click "Compressed (Zipped) Folder"
3. And your done!
Un-Zipping
1. Right click on the file you want to un-zip
2. Click Extract All
3. Choose where you would like to extract to files to
4. Click Extract and you're done
Here is how:
Zipping
1. Take the file or folder that you want to zip and right click it.
2. Go to send to and click "Compressed (Zipped) Folder"
3. And your done!
Un-Zipping
1. Right click on the file you want to un-zip
2. Click Extract All
3. Choose where you would like to extract to files to
4. Click Extract and you're done
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