The Old New Thing

August 3, 2012 - The Old New Thing

Get your Contoso-branded merchandise while you can

August 3, 2012 Aug 3, 2012 08/3/12
Raymond Chen
Long-time observers are familiar with Contoso, the fake company name used in Microsoft samples and demonstrations. The Windows Phone folks have started running with the joke and creating their own line of Contoso-branded merchandise. (Of course, if you get the Contoso mug, you should fill it with Fourth Coffee...

FORFILES, for your fancier batch file enumeration needs

August 3, 2012 Aug 3, 2012 08/3/12
Raymond Chen
Crack open open the champagne: Batch File Week is finally over! Variations on the will let you repeat an operation on the contents of a directory, possibly even recursively if you add the option, with some basic attribute-level filtering if you add the or /a- flags. For your fancy recursive file operations, there's a tool called which...