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How To Manually Check For Last Windows Update

Open regedit and navigate to the following keys:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\Auto Update\Results\Detect
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\WindowsUpdate\Auto Update\Results\Download
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\WindowsUpdate\Auto Update\Results\Install
Check the value of
LastSuccessTime
In each of the above

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Extract Audio Tracks From Video Files For Free.

If you want to extract just the audio track from video and still maintain the quality of the audio track, then you need to use Video MP3 Extractor from GeoVid.
This tiny program will install in seconds and will allow you to tracks from any video encoded in AVI, ASF, WMV formats and output the file [...]

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Retrieve Your Public IP Address From The Command Line.

There are many reasons that you want to know your public IP address and getting that is easy by visiting some of the sites that allow you to view that information, but what if you wanted to do it from the command line? What if you wanted to script that? To upload the result to [...]

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Convert And Download Youtube Videos Online.

While it is not new that Youtube videos can be downloaded to a local drive, now you can convert the format to a Windows or Mac friendly formats even before downloading the videos to your local drive.
This has been done using expensive software in the past, but now it is done online, and for free.
To [...]

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Killing Remote Tasks In Dos Or PowerShell.

PSkill is part of Microsoft’s Sysinternals collection of free tools.
You can get PSKill as a part of PsTools collection from here.
To use pskill you either have to be in DOS command (cmd) window or download and install PowerShell.
Usage: pskill [-t] [\\computer [-u username [-p password]]] <process ID | name>
-t      Kill the process and its descendants.
-u     [...]

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