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Downstall Utility

Downstall – download & install – is a quick utility I wrote using AutoIT that downloads and installs a program in one step.

It’s usage is rather easy, from the command line run Downstall with three command-line options and it will do all the work: download the program and run the executable with options that you define. In addition, status of each step along the way will be outputted to a log file for examining upon failure.

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  • File Limiter

    A quick and simple way to limit the amount of files in a certain directory. Maybe I shouldn’t use the word limit – how about manage. A quick and simple way to manage the number of files of a certain file type in a directory.

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  • It’s when the simple things don’t work that I get mad. I’ve been working on one of our servers all day using Windows Terminal Services in remote administration mode. Somewhere between Thanksgiving dinner #1 and #2, my connection decided to drop causing it to continue to run on the server. While this typically wouldn’t be a problem, it appears that someone else has done the same thing (probably not today) which now makes it impossible to log into my server remotely.

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