Archive for the 'Command line' Category

PS Tools

http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/PsTools.html
Ps Tools, by sysinternals is a collection of free command line tools for windows that do such things as remotely run programs, show/kill processes, and start services. They come in very handy for remote administration/help desk.
All of them will run just fine from a CD, and by creating a gui with autohotkey, or a script […]

Monday, September 25th, 2006

Cygwin

Cygwin is a unix/linux like environment for windows. You can go to the cygwin site and use their installer to get a custom environment, or you can just do what I did and get user.exe from this site about unix win32 utilities.Install the program and then edit the batch file or cmd file so it […]

Saturday, September 23rd, 2006

7-zip

www.7-zip.org
7-zip is in my humble opinion, the best free compression utility for windows. It won’t require registration like winzip, and its own file compression format is more compressed than zip files.
7-zip will run from it’s own directory, so it needs no “installation”. Just download it and burn the directory to a cd. There is a […]

Sunday, September 17th, 2006

Autohotkey

www.autohotkey.com
Autohotkey is the single greatest application I’ve ever found to take to work. It lets me automate all sorts of repetitive things and even create my own little programs and tools for use at work. I don’t ever like to work without it.
I discovered autohotkey when I had an extremely boring job checking remedy tickets […]

Sunday, September 17th, 2006