Elijah Grey

In Windows, you can associate file extensions with programs so they are opened by those programs by default. When you try to open a file without a file extension (most likely a text file made in a linux OS), you are prompted with the dialog to select a program to open the file but the checkbox to make the program you select always open files with the (non-existant) file extension of the current file is disabled. It is still possible to associate all files without file extensions with a program in Windows.

I have made batch files that allow you to set and remove program association on files without file extensions. I have also made two predone batch files for two programs Windows users are very likely to use to open files without file extensions. In the list of batch files after this, you may to check the files out and see that they are safe and will not damage your computer by clicking the “view source” link.
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I have made a php script that makes linking to email addresses through http: links but in the exact same format as mailto: links possible. You can test it out by going to http://mail-noreply@mailto.eligrey.com?subject=Hello World! (IE users: click here after reading paragraph below). If you took away the double slashes (which would still work) and replaced http with mailto, the link would work as a mailto link. You may be asked if you would like to log on with the username ‘mail-noreply’. Click OK if you see this. One reason for doing this is that most spambots can’t handle HTTP authentication.

IE users: IE doesn’t support username:password@host URIs so you need to go to the normal URI without everything before the @ sign. You will get prompted to type in a username (ignore password), type in the username in the email address you want to email.
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I used to use NFSN’s e-mail forwarding to forward to my main gmail address but now I am changing my mail service to Google Apps because the email forwarding from NFSN costs $0.02/day and Google Apps is free and includes many other Google Services too. So don’t email me through eligrey.com for a day or two (if anyone reads the blog anyways).

Nevermind, NFSN’s email forwarding is much less of a hassle, offers unlimited redirection aliases, and I can still keep everything in one single gmail inbox.

I think too many people hate Vista (I dual boot it with Ubuntu Hardy Heron), but it’s not that bad if you can get rid of the UAC annoyance. The UAC is the main reason people hate Vista. This guide is just to show a simple way to be able to use the administrator account in Vista (like XP’s administrator account). While using the administrator account, every program you run is “run as administrator” but without any UAC prompts. This is great for people who hate having to stay near their Vista PC when installing something because of the possiblity of a UAC permission popup.

First, push the Windows key and type “cmd”, the first search result should be “cmd.exe”. Right click this and click “Run as administrator”. Now you can enter any of the following commands that affect the administrator account.

Enable Administrator Account:

net user administrator /active:yes

Disable Administrator Account:

net user administrator /active:no

Change Administrator Account Password:

net user administrator *

Changing the administrator account’s password can also be done via the Windows User Accounts GUI using the administrator account.