Windows 7 God Mode

1) Create new folder

 

2) Name folder GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}

 

3) Consume Bacon

Disable/Enable your network card from the command line.

Save these commands as a .cmd file:

@ECHO OFF
CLS
ECHO Disabling network interfaces.
netsh interface set interface "Local Area Connection" DISABLE
netsh interface set interface "Wireless Network Connection" DISABLE
ECHO Enabling network interfaces
netsh interface set interface "Local Area Connection" ENABLE
netsh interface set interface "Wireless Network Connection" ENABLE
PAUSE

*This has only been tested with Windows 7

Default Gateway Ping Test Batch File

This is a batch file that will let you test your connection status by pinging your default gateway.  Copy this code into notepad and save the file with a .BAT or .CMD extension.

@ECHO OFF
COLOR 1F
TITLE GATEWAY PING TEST
:PINGTEST
CLS
FOR /F "TOKENS=2 DELIMS=:" %%G IN ('IPCONFIG ^| find "Default Gateway"') DO (
    IF NOT "%%G"==" " (
        PING -w 30000 -n 1 %%G
        IF ERRORLEVEL 1 ECHO UNABLE TO PING GATEWAY!!!
    )
)
ECHO.
CHOICE /T 5 /D Y /M "WAITING 5 SECONDS BEFORE RETRY"
GOTO PINGTEST

*This has only been tested with Windows 7.  YMMV

Erasing or Wiping a Floppy Disk

Apparently there is a new switch to the format command that will let wipe a disk with multiple passes of writing 0 to the sector. For example:

format A: /P:3 /V:

will erase disk A: writing 3 passes of zero on each sector. "/V:" is for blanking the volume label. The disk is still usable but the old data is not recoverable. (Checked with PC Inspector File Recovery) This works with Vista and higher.