Articles tagged with windows_xp

1. Archiving Windows Directories With 7-Zip and a FOR Loop

   Posted on May 10, 2010 in System Administration

   I recently needed to archive a bunch of old home directories on a CIFS share mounted on my Windows XP virtual machine. I wanted each home directory to be archived independently so that I would have lots of smaller zip files rather than one huge one. Additionally, maintaining the directory …

2. Enabling Firefox's Session Restore

   Posted on April 19, 2007 in Software

   One of the features of Firefox 2 is Session Restore. By default, if Firefox needs to restart for an update (or crashes), it will restore your session to the state it was in at the time of restart. That means your tabs and windows will be just like you left …