Ramesh Srinivasan
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Blog address has changed...
- By Ramesh Srinivasan
- Published March 8, 2008
Dear Readers, I've changed to a different blogging platform (WordPress), and make a note of the new Web address for the Winhelponline Blog:URL: http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/RSS : http://www.winhe...
Winhelponline.com - Site stats for 2007
- By Ramesh Srinivasan
- Published December 20, 2007
Thought it's a good time to post the site statistics.
Report generated on Dec 19, 2007 by AWStats.
"Open With" window appears when attempting to open a Command Prompt window?
- By Ramesh Srinivasan
- Published November 15, 2007
A question which I came across recently...
I go to Start, Run and type in "cmd", I get an Open With prompt window that asks me to
Choose the program you want to use to open this file: File: cmd
...
Windows XP File Types dialog and setting an Accelerator Key - Bug?
- By Ramesh Srinivasan
- Published July 2, 2007
Unable to assign Acceleration Key for an Action
I have found what I consider to be a bug in Windows XP. It would affect almost no one, but still a bug. As an example, assume that Microsoft Word is ...
More on overriding the "Delete" command in the Recycle Bin context menu in Windows Vista
- By Ramesh Srinivasan
- Published June 16, 2007
Summary
In article 142 - How to hide the "Delete" command from Recycle Bin context menu in Windows Vista published on Feb 14 2007, I provided a .REG file which removes the Delete command from the R...
Can I install Windows Script 5.6 in Windows Vista?
- By Ramesh Srinivasan
- Published June 2, 2007
Question
I had a problem loading a HP compatibility file for Windows Vista, for my new scanner. The HP Technical person suggested I download Windows Script 5.6 because of the installer error code 2...
OpenWithAdd 1.2 - Supports Windows Vista
- By Ramesh Srinivasan
- Published April 21, 2007
When you right-click a file and choose Open With, and click the Choose Program... option, the list of registered applications are displayed in the Open With dialog. Programs that are not already lis...
"Unspecified error" when adding a link to Favorites in Windows Vista
- By Ramesh Srinivasan
- Published March 28, 2007
After reading the blog post Folder Redirection for Favorites on the Same Machine at IE Team blog, I planned to relocate my Favorites folder to a different drive. After relocation, when I tried to add ...
BgInfo 4.10 released!
- By Ramesh Srinivasan
- Published March 20, 2007
Sysinternals (acquired by Microsoft in 2006) has released an updated version of BgInfo 4.10 in the last week. Here is the announcement made in the Sysinternals Utilities Home page:
BgInfo has been ...
Shell commands (shell:) to access the special folders in Windows Vista
- By Ramesh Srinivasan
- Published March 15, 2007
The shell: command can be used to open a special folder directly from the Start, Search menu. For example, the command shell:sendto opens the SendTo folder (%userprofile%\sendto) of your user profil...

