Drag and Drop to Command Prompt, Back in Windows 7

Working with the Command Prompt is one of an IT Professional’s required skills. In previous Windows operating systems, one could drag and object to an open Command Prompt window in order to ease our work. This feature was nice to have especially when running executable files nested deep within a folder hierarchy. Instead of manually navigating the Command Prompt path to the required folder, you could simply drag and drop the necessary file to the Run option or to the Command Prompt and press Enter to run it.

Somehow, this useful feature wend away in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. I wrote about this in my Missing Drag and Drop in Vista Command Prompt article. In Vista/2008, if you try to drag a file from anywhere in Windows Explorer to an open Command Prompt window you see that the pointer icon changes to a “no entry” symbol:

When asked, Microsoft officials provided dull answers and claimed that this is “by design” and that it was in fact “a feature”. Some claimed that “This was done to reduce the command window's dealings with the dragged data object”. This last excuse is, in my opinion, pure crap especially when compared to the huge overhead provided by other so-called “advanced” features of Vista such as the process-intensive Aero theme (read my Aero Theme is bad, disable it article or to the huge overhead of the TCP Window Auto tuning functionality that wrecks havoc to your network copy and browse functions (read my Browsing websites and downloading files is painfully slow with Windows Vista. Other answers included things like “you can shift-right-click to get the copy as path function instead” (read my Quickly Copy File and Folder Path in Windows Vista. Another claim was that the drag and drop feature was dropped because it poses a “security risk”. Maybe, I don’t know, but since it’s been present since the days of older operating systems I don’t see why it wasn’t removed before if it was such a huge security risk.

You can imagine that I did not have high expectations set when I booted up my Windows 7 (currently beta build 7000) virtual machine and fired a CMD window. I tried dragging a file name onto the open CMD window, and behold, it works!

Other methods worth mentioning are also listed in my How can I quickly copy a file or a folder's path in Windows Vista? article which describes a trick that still works in Windows 7;

Open a Windows Explorer windows, browse to the required file. Hold the SHIFT key while you right-click the folder.

You can now paste the copied path anywhere you want, including to a Command Prompt window.

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How to Solve - Display Properties Tab Missing.

When   you are trying to change the “Display Properties"  on Desktop  sometimes you can view only "Themes" or few “tabs”.  The other tabs  like  "Desktop", "Screen saver", "appearance" and "Settings are may   missing.  What could be the problem?The most likely cause of this is malware utilizing Group Policy Objects which enforces policies for system settings and/or user account(s) settings.

First you have to ensure  there is no malware in your PC.Now  you have to manually do the registry value change   or by running registry fix from Kellys-Korner.Before making any changes to the Windows XP Registry, please backup your Windows XP Registry

Start> Run> type  “Regedit“ without quotes and navigate these two locations:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System

In the right-pane, delete the following values if found:

- NoDispAppearancePage
- NoThemesTab
- NoDispBackgroundPage
- NoDispScrSavPage
- NoDispSettingsPage

If none of the above Policies are set (in both of the locations above), ,Still  the display properties tabs are still missing except for the Themes tab, try  these commands from Start, Run dialog:
regsvr32 themeui
regsvr32 /i shell32

Restart Windows

Visit Kellys-Korner and apply the  Registry Patch(line 285)

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/regs_edits/restorealldisplaytabs.reg

Also check : http://support.microsoft.com/kb/922370/en-us

You may also want to perform an XP System Restore by going to Start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > System Restore. There you can select a date prior to when the issue began. This can also be done in Safe Mode .

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How To Install Multiple Antivirus Programs

We always wish our computers to be secure from damages especially from Viruses.We use Anti-virus software for our computer in order to protect it from getting viruses. But none of them can be 100% secure to save our computers from Viruses. However we also may think of installing multiple anti-viruses at a same time on our computer.But installing two or more antivirus is not possible , because antivirus software nowadays are so complex and they may conflict with each other causing crashes and blue screens.It also leads to system resources hog  and slows the computer down.

Recently found a tool called Multi AV Scan developed by Gakh from HackHound that allows you to run on-demand scan using 10 types antivirus on your computer.It is possible  to run two or more antivirus  programs with this third party software. Multi AV Scan is a standalone software and it  does not provide real time protection.It is not required to uninstall your current antivirus to run Multi AV Scan.It currently supports A-Squared, Avira AntiVir, BitDefender, ClamWin, DrWeb, Ikarus, McAfee, Solo, Sophos, VBA32.

This program is little buggy.It  will continue  Scanning the whole time without progress unless  you have to put the file that you want to scan in the same folder where  MultiScan.exe installed.If you’re using Avira AntiVir, you need to place Avira license key HBEDV.KEY (you can get it for free here) file in \AVs\AntiVir\ folder.It also  consume  more resources during updating and scanning.It works with XP and Vista

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