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This blog has movedThis blog is now located at http://ekhwanarchive.blogspot.com/. You will be automatically redirected in 30 seconds, or you may click here. For feed subscribers, please update your feed subscriptions to http://ekhwanarchive.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default. Useful Windows XP DOS Commands & TricksTyping DOS commands on the Windows Command Line prompt is a most efficient and faster way of doing things in Windows XP. Here's a run-down of the most useful DOS commands available in Windows XP. Some of these DOS commands even do not have an visual alternative. DOS Command-line tools must be run at the prompt of the Cmd.exe command interpreter. To open Command Prompt, click Start, click Run, type cmd, and then click OK. ipconfig - Windows IP configuration Useful for troubleshooting your internet connection. Displays the current IP address of your computer and the DNS server address. If you call your ISP for reporting a bad internet connection, he will probably ask you to run ipconfig. fc - Free BeyondCompare in XP FC is an advanced DOS Command that compares two files and displays the differences between them. Though the file comparison results are not as interactive as BeyondCompare or Altova DiffDog, fc is still very useful. You can even set fc to resynchronize the files after finding a mismatch. type - open text files sans Notepad Similar to Unix cat command, Type is my favorite DOS command for displaying the contents of a text files without modifying them. When used in combination with more switch, type splits the contents of lengthy text files into multiple pages. Avoid using the type command with binary files or you'll hear alien PC beeps and see some greek characters on your PC. ping - Say hello to another computer Ping network command followed by the web-address or IP address tells you about the health of the connection and whether the other party is responding to your handshake request. Ping tool can also be used to convert the web address to a physical IP address. tree - visual directory structure You often need to take prints of your physical directory structure but XP has no simple "visual" commands for printing directory contents. Here, try the Tree DOS command and redirect the output to a text file. tree > mydirectory. txt print mydirectory. txt attrib - make hidden files visible Attrib lets you change attributes of System files and even hidden files. This is great for troubleshooting Windows XP. Say your XP doesn't boot ever since you edited that startup boot.ini file (Hidden), use attrib to remove the Hidden attibute and edit the file using EDIT dos command. assoc - which program will open that .xyz file The assoc DOS command can be used to either isplay or even modify the file name extension associations. The command assoc .htm will quickly tell you the name of your default web browser (see picture) move - more flexible than copy-paste Say you got a lot of XLS and DOC files in you MyDocuments folder and want to move only those XLS files that have their name ending with 2006. In XP Explorer, you have to manually select each file and then cut-paste to another folder. However, the DOS move command make things much simpler. Just type the following at the command prompt: move *2006.xls c:\2006Reports\ find - advanced file search with filter Find is the most powerful DOS command and even more useful than the Windows Desktop Search tool or the Windows Find Wizard. The find command searches for a specific string of text in a file or files. After searching the specified file or files, find displays any lines of text that contain the specified string. To search your hard disk to find and display the file names on drive C: that contain the string "Google" use the pipe (|) to direct the results of a dir command to find as follows: dir c:\ /s /b | find "Google" Quick tip - Drag to avoid typing: When your command acts on a file or folder, you must type the path to that folder after the command. You can save typing time by dragging the file or folder from Windows Explorer into the command window. To view help at the command-line, at the command prompt, type the following: CommandName /? Related resources on Microsoft Website: List of DOS Commands with Examples | Command Line Redirection Methods Labels: Personal Computers How to Flush DNSYou can flush your DNS cache as per following. 1) For Windows- Start -> Run -> type cmd - in command prompt, type ipconfig /flushdns - Done! You Window DNS cache has just been flush. 2) For Linux - To restart the nscd daemon, type /etc/rc.d/init.d/nscd restart in your terminal - Once you run the command your linux DNS cache will flush. 3) For Mac OS X - type lookupd -flushcache in your terminal to flush the DNS resolver cache. ex: bash-2.05a$ lookupd -flushcache - Once you run the command your DNS cache (in Mac OS X) will flush. Labels: Networking, Personal Computers Portable AppsThanks to the people who really contribute their time and much more their passion in developing applications that would make this world a better place to live in. opensource is the thing that has fascinated me sine long, infact the very day I first recognized the Internet, and went into the hosting business, I have made a point to contribute my share to the fabulous opensource community. The other day I was viewing a documentary on the Goolge boys who made history and billionaires of themselves by doing just this, help make the world a better place to live in. Portable Apps Suite your computer, without a computer™ as they call it is something everyone should know and learn about. I have loved applications that have standalone executable files without installations, thats whats portability is all about. When you are in a business like web hosting such applications mean a lot to you when you are on the move. It makes a big difference when you have all your tools loaded on a flash drive or a portable hard drive. You can connect to your machines and clients and have records at hand all the time. Web Hosting is all about this after all. One of the favorite standalone application of mine has been putty and utorrent, thanks to my friends who pointed out to me these things. PortableApps.com is the one place where you can find these wonderful mouth watering softwares. It also has a portable OS, MAC 7. Running a Mac from a Flash Disk, thats something you got to look at. Carry all your bookmarks, passwords, tools and even media players in your pocket. Well thats what has made me feel comfortable with the growth of technology and the open source community. Best of all these apps are totally free, no spyware, no adware, you dont even need to give your email address, nor buy any hardware. Well you are free to donate a small sum, whatever you like to. The site contains a portable version of office suite, filezilla, firefox, thunderbird, a PDF reader, an IM tool and much more. Labels: Networking, Personal Computers Remote Control an Apple Mac from a Windows PC and vice-versaWant to use your Mac from a PC or vice-versa ? Get Yuuguu. Yuuguu is a free computer screen sharing software cum IM client that's available both on Mac and the Windows platform. Wondering why another screen sharing app when we already have Microsoft Tahiti or the popular Crossloop ? The answer is simple - Yuuguu is a cross-platform product meaning the participants may be on Mac or Windows computers but they can still share screens and chat together. CrossLoop and Tahiti are currently available only for Windows PC's The Yuuguu screen sharing client interface resembles Google Talk - you add friends, invite them to your desktop or vice-versa and can even IM them during the screen-sharing session. The whole process is very non-geeky and you need not make any adjustments to your Firewall or unblock any ports. What's missing - No annotation tools or cursor highlights. And it is not possible to share a specific application, you'll have to share your entire desktop with all the running applications. Yuuguu Homepage | Download Yuuguu Labels: Internet, Networking |
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