CCleaner utility for Windows

12:59 on Tue 2010-06-29 by Leons Petrazickis Utilities, Windows

CCleaner is one of my favourite utilities for Windows. It does several things very well. One of them is removing the temporary files that various applications leave lying around. For example, the Windows temporary files directory gets filled up with various installers that have a tendency to never be removed as well as fragments of [...]

Creating Start Menu shortcuts with Javascript

17:17 on Tue 2007-08-14 by Leons Petrazickis Javascript, Windows

While preparing the installer for the Web 2.0 Starter Toolkit for IBM DB2, I had to set up Start Menu shortcuts. The way to do that is to work through the Windows Scripting Host (WSH). The WSH supports two built-in languages – VBScript and Jscript – and a theoretical number of third-party alternatives. VBScript is [...]

Utilities for Windows I

12:16 on Fri 2007-03-09 by Leons Petrazickis Downloads, Windows

Hard Drive Cleanup WinDirStat is an excellent utility for visualizing your used disk space and drilling down to files that you can clean up, back up, and delete. It’s similar to SequoiaView and Steffen Gerlach’s Scanner, but even more powerful. You can drill down through a folder tree as well as highlight filetypes in the [...]