Month: July 2011

This isn’t going to be detailed… Get PsExec from SysInternals (http://live.sysinternals.com/psexec.exe) psexec remoteComputerName cmd /c netsh firewall set service RemoteAdmin This runs the “netsh” command on the remote system to enable RemoteAdmin through firewall.  I ran into this problem when I couldn’t run the netsh from a 2003 box to control the XP remote system.  … Read more Enable XP Remote Administration through Firewall

This is just craziness.  I suppose I should just reboot?  =]  This is on Windows 7 Professional 32bit SP1.  *scratches head*   Update [7/18/2011] I found what the problem was — stupid me. I left verifier running on cmd.exe. Disabled it and voila, things work – as expected.

In no particular order, the below are my favorite text editors for use in any version of Windows. 1. VIM (Windows, Mac, DOS, Amiga, Android etc., etc., Download) Windows Graphical VIM (gVIM) 2. Notepad Notepad 3. Textpad (http://www.textpad.com/) Textpad

This one-liner (source): I found this batch script/command on ServerFault *I think*. Very cool little one-liner trick. @for %%e in (%PATHEXT%) do @for %%i in (%1%%e) do @if NOT “%%~$PATH:i”==”” echo %%~$PATH:i Example usage: C:\Users\Rich\Desktop>whereis cmd C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe C:\Users\Rich\Desktop>whereis shutdown C:\Windows\System32\shutdown.exe C:\Users\Rich\Desktop>whereis putty Update: July 21, 2011 So, I discovered: “where” built-in to Windows… Description: Displays … Read more A Windows “whereis” Command