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Driverquery.exe Command Line Tool

Jan 152012

System administrators sometimes need to be able to produce a list of drivers that are installed on their system. Driveryquery.exe is an excellent command line tool from Microsoft to accomplish this. This tool will give you a report on all of the current device drivers that are loaded on your system. The command line tool also gives you several options on the information that it will display. Below is a screenshot that shows all of the options available for running Driverquery.exe.

Driverquery.exe From Microsoft

Examples Of Driverquery.exe

This example will pipe the information from driverquery.exe to a txt file on the drive.
C:\driverquery.exe > C:\driverqueyr.txt

This example will format the output into a list view.
C:\driverquery.exe /fo list

This example will turn on verbose output for more information.
C:\driverquery.exe /V

This example will show drivers that are currently running.
C:\driverquery.exe /v | findstr Running

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Image Resizer Source Forge Project

IT Admin Tips, Personal Applications, Windows 7 1 Response »

Jan 112012

Image resizer is just one of those must have tools to have on your home PC. The project is a clone of the old power toy image resizer. One of the reasons it is a must have is I made the change this past year to a Cannon T2i DSLR camera. Sending a 8-12 megabyte picture to family and friends is nearly impossible. This tool makes it quick and painless to resize pictures down to an acceptable size limit. It also comes in very handy when you are trying to upload profile pictures or send pictures to mobile devices. Below you can see a screenshot of the option you have to choose from. You can basically choose from small, medium, large, mobile, or a custom size. The nice part about the tool is that it will automatically save a new picture and and onto the file name the size you chose. I have also included the link for the project homepage where you can download it from. If you use it let me know what you think by leaving a comment in the post.

Image Resizer Source Forge

Description From the SourceForge Project Site
This is a clone of Image Resizer which is one of the Microsoft PowerToys for Windows XP. It enables you to resize one or many image files with a right-click. This version will work also on non-XP versions of Windows including Windows Vista.

Image Resizer – SourceForge
http://sourceforge.net/projects/phototoysclone/

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Error When Launching Task Manger In Windows 7

Windows 7 4 Responses »

Apr 252010

I ran across an error when launching task manager in Windows 7 which was “c:\windows\system32\taskmgr.exe The parameter is incorrect”. You can see a screen shot of the error below . When I first received this error I was stumped as I had never had an issue with task manager in my life. I then started thinking back to what I had done in the past few days and remembered what I had done. I had enabled process explorer from sysinternals to replace task manager. This is no big deal, but if you move the process explorer executable to a different location it is a problem. I had been doing some house cleaning and moved the exe to another location. To fix the problem all I had to do is launch process explorer again and under options select restore task manager. When I had completed this process task manager started up without a problem. Hopefully this post comes in handy to somebody else running into the same problem.

Error Displayed When Launching Task Manager

Error When Launching Task Manager