This hack shows you how to map your USB storage devices to a folder rather than a drive letter. This consistently will keep the same device mapped to the correct folder and you don’t have to worry about the drive letters changing on you. Thanks to Mark H. for pointing this one out to me.
In my last .NN I mentioned that knowing your tools is important. Last night I picked up something new that may not be overly interesting, but just drives home the idea of knowing your tools AND that you learn something new every day.
I started reading the PowerShell in Action book by Bruce Payette last night and in the first few pages it compares PowerShell to Shells of the past. One of the statements it made was that many of the keyboard command sequences you are used to from Cmd.
Levy pointed me to this article about some power toys for dealing with running UAC and getting your elevated privileges when you need them.
Included are:
elevate - used on command line and run-as dialog. Ex. - elevate notepad.exe Run As Administrator for WSH scripts, PS1 scripts, & HTML Application context menus. Cmd & PowerShell prompt here as Administrator I think I’ll add the elevate and prompt here power toys.