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Windows Tip Sheet #178: Making Windows Give It Up
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WINDOWS TIP SHEET: Personal Prompts
What? Windows Explorer as a GUI for admin tasks. Uh, kinda.
By Jeffery Hicks
I always dread the "tell me about yourself"
question at job interviews.
But in desktop and server management that's another story.
I'm
constantly under the Windows hood poking around to see what
I can find.
Often, I'll be looking at .exe files and sometimes a .dll or
two and
wonder, "Where did you come from and what do you
do?"
The tool that makes the files talk is Filever.exe. This
handy command-
line tool prints out file version information. Open a
command prompt
and type Filever /? to see the usage syntax.
You can use Filever.exe to examine a single file or process
all files
in a folder or subfolders. The tool doesn't have a logging
feature,
so you'll need to redirect output if you want to save it.
If you use the default output, your results file can be
imported into
Excel as a space-delimited file, which makes it very easy to
filter
and sort. Want to build an Excel database of every .exe file
on your
C: drive? Type this:
C:>filever /S /E c: > EXELog.txt
It takes a bit of time to run, but you should be able to
open the file
in Excel. Add a header line and you'll have a ton of
information.
If you have a file you are particularly interested in, you
can use
the /V switch to get detailed information, including things
like
company name, product name and product version. The format,
unfortunately, doesn't lend itself to saving to a file you
could
import into Excel. But you might be able to do something
like this
to get close (this is a single command):
C:WindowsSystem32>for /f %f in ('dir *.exe /b') do  echo %f
>>
c:sys32exe.txt & filever %f /v | find /i
"description"
>> c:sys32exe.txt
Windows can be pretty talkative, if you know how to ask the
right questions.
Comment: http://mcpmag.com/columns/article.asp?EditorialsID=2
445#post
Jeffery Hicks MCSE, MCSA, MCT is a senior network engineer
with Visory
Group. He's a contributing editor to ScriptingAnswers.com
and the
coauthor, with Don Jones, of "Advanced VBScript for
Microsoft Windows
Administrators" (Microsoft Press, http://tinyurl.com/g63nf
) and
"PowerShell TFM" (SAPIEN Press, http://tinyurl.com/2v7dye ). Jeff
is also the creator of several popular, script-related tools
used for
network and Exchange administration. He maintains a blog at
http://jdhitsoluti
ons.blogspot.com .
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users are
listed/shown as menu items (with their my docs folder, app
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desktop, etc). when they log off the PC, it tries to re-sync
every
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