How to Write a Batch Script on Windows

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This can be extremely problematic since the Rogue Peer in question is very unlikely to have any of the appropriate security measures or features necessary to prevent unauthorized access to the network. What We're Reading This section contains what we're reading from around the web, along with commentary from our editors. Think of it like your daily digest of the most interesting things online. Here's What Humans Might Look Like If We Had Evolved to Survive Car Crashes Every wonder what humans would like if they'd evolved to survive high speed automotive crashes? No? Neither had we... but the resulting collaboration between engineers, surgeons, and designers to show what that might have looked like is weirdly fascinating. [Road and Track] Cyanogen Inc. reportedly fires OS development arm, switches to apps What happens to an Android OS company when it stops developing an Android OS? [ArsTechnica] Which Font Should I Use On My Kindle? We ask the experts: Which font is optimal for my Kindle? [FastCo] The reasons why exhaustion and burnout are so common More and more people are suffering 'burnout' – but is this the fault of modern life or is physical, mental and spiritual exhaustion a far older condition? [BBC] How to Enable Offline Browsing in Chrome When you visit a webpage in a browser, all the resources, such as images, style sheets, and Javascript files, are downloaded and stored in the browser's cache. This allows webpages you've already visited to load more quickly because the browser doesn't have to download the resources again. Read This Article → How Create a USB Flash Drive Installer for Windows 10, 8, or 7 If you’d like to install Windows but don’t have a DVD drive, it’s easy enough to create a bootable USB flash drive with the right installation media. Here’s how to get it done for Windows 10, 8, or 7. Read This Article → How to Write a Batch Script on Windows Do you know how to use the Command Prompt? If you do, you can write a batch file. In its simplest form, a batch file (or batch script) is a list of several commands that are executed when you double-click the file. Batch files go all the way back to DOS, but still work on modern versions of Windows. Read This Article → How to Run Windows Programs on a Mac With Wine Wine is an open source program for running Windows software on non-Windows operating systems. While it’s most often used on Linux, Wine can run Windows software directly on a Mac, too–without requiring a Windows license or needing Windows running in the background. Read This Article → Your Must-Have iPhone/iPad Manager – Transfer and Manage iOS Media Files Easily [Sponsored] It is said that every 3.5 seconds a phone is lost or stolen, which is exactly the root of why the mobile data backup field is getting more crowded. Staying ahead of the competition is no picnic, but WinX MediaTrans makes it with ease! Read This Article → How to Stress Test the Hard Drives in Your PC or Server Which of your hard drives is the fastest, and is it really as fast as the manufacturer promised? Whether you have a desktop PC or a server, Microsoft’s free Diskspd utility will stress test and benchmark your hard drives. Read This Article → How to Move Emails Between the Auto-Sorted Inbox Tabs in Gmail Gmail’s tabbed inbox system is a handy way to organize your emails into categories, but tweaking which emails go to which categories isn’t a trick that’s immediately obvious. Read This Article → How to Schedule Your Ecobee3 to Go Into Vacation Mode If you’re going on vacation soon, and don’t want to be bothered changing the thermostat as you’re trying to wrangle the family, the Ecobee3 actually allows you to schedule the thermostat to go into an away mode ahead of time. Read This Article → How to Turn Off Contact and Event Suggestions in Apple Mail Apple Mail can suggest calendar events for you based on dates and times it scans in your messages. While this feature may seem really convenient for some, others may not want to use it all. Thankfully, there is a way to disable it. Read This Article → How to Add an App Drawer to the LG G5’s Home Screen LG did something weird with the G5: it completely removed the app drawer in the stock launcher, and tossed all apps on the the home screens, like in iOS. I get that some people probably like this—maybe even prefer it—but I'm sure it's off-putting to many others. If you'd like to give the stock launcher a go but want the app drawer back, LG actually included a way to add an app drawer to its launcher via a separate download. Read This Article → How to See When a Text Message was Sent on Your iPhone By default, the iPhone’s Messages app shows you the date and time for the first message on any given day, but not for every message sent and received. However, the exact time each message was sent is hidden–but there's an easy way to show all the exact timestamps. Read This Article → How to Prevent Windows from Automatically Updating Specific Drivers Windows–especially Windows 10–has a bad habit of installing new updates for hardware drivers whether you want them or not. You could go big and simply prevent Windows from downloading updates altogether, or you might have luck blocking or hiding updates. But if you’ve got the Pro or Enterprise version of Windows, you can tailor your actions a little better by using Group Policy Editor to prevent the installation or updating of specific devices. Read This Article → How to Disable the Trash and Screenshot Sound Effects on a Mac Move a file to the trash, empty the trash, or take a screenshot of your Mac’s desktop and your Mac will play a sound. If you’re sick of those paper crumpling and camera shutter sounds, you can disable them by changing a single option. Read This Article → You Only Have a Week Left to Get Windows 10 Free. Here’s Why You Should Update The free Windows 10 upgrade offer ends on July 29, 2016. After that, you’ll have to pay at least $119 if you ever want to upgrade to Windows 10 on your computer. You should seriously consider upgrading to Windows 10 before July 29, if you haven’t already done so. Read This Article → Advertisement Download Your Guide to Securing End-to-End Enterprise Mobility A step-by-step guide to help you address the challenges you face as you work to go mobile, stay mobile, and protect your data with an end-to-end solution. Click here to download