Using task manager in windows to spawn new shell

It is common in Windows that while working we suddenly find ourselves unable to click or do much because of “hangs” in the system. There can be many many reasons for this to happen,event viewer can help to see that.Most of the times,we restart Windows to make the frozen screen go away,however there is one …

Copying songs from ipod to PC-idump

I wanted to transfer the entire collection of songs and movies from my ipod nano to Vista laptop. Idump came to the rescue,it seamlessly copied all my stuff and also preserved the original files on ipod. To use it,download it from here. This is a nice freeware that gets the work done quickly. Method to …

Using F7 as command history

There are many useful commands and the shortcuts to invoke them in Windows. One such widely overlooked but a sure time saver is the command history popup window from Windows command prompt. As Windows users/power users/admins,we use command prompt to varying extent and yes it does get boring to type the command that we typed …

How to use psexec – a brief overview

It is quite a familiar scenario that helpdesk/tech support/systems administration folks need to see what is there on a remote box without using a remote viewer like VNC or using RDP (Of course I am talking about Microsoft Windows family here 🙂 ). Say like the other day when I wanted to refresh group policies …

Ping pong

I am being very irregular in my blog posts here.Travel and other activities like soul searching are taking most of my time. Recently I bought a book called The Power Of Now by Eckhart Tolle which dwells on topics of spiritualism and soul searching.Good read and the author writes in a question answer format about …