Have you ever needed to export the email addresses of your Outlook contacts to a text file? One of the visitors here was needing to do this. So I modified the script I wrote that exports contacts to vcf files to create a text file that just contains the email addresses of all of the contacts. This script takes one command line argument, the path where the test file will be stored. It then opens your Outlook contacts and extracts the email addresses for each contact and writes those addresses to a file named emailaddress.txt

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One of the things that is very important to do if you are a computer user, is to take care of your computer and protect your data. This sample command file uses two Windows XP built-in commands XCOPY and DEFRAG to do this. XCOPY is used to backup folders / files that are specified and DEFRAG is used to clean up any fragments in the file system on your hard drive.

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I recently needed to take a hard drive out of a family member's computer in order to clean up and virus infection. If you ever have to do something like this, one of the things that you will need to do is remove any of the virus related entries from the registry of the infected machine. This sample command script will load the two most likely registry hives, start regedit, and then unload the hives when regedit is closed.

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