Tips on Windows

Readings : References, Tutorials, Articles

• Windows XP Professional : Command-line reference

• The Disk is write-protected. Remove the write-protection
• How to Disable Write Access to USB Hard Disk and Flash Key Drives
• Change the Favorites Folder Location
• IE7 in Vista: Folder Redirection for Favorites on the Same Machine
• How to change FileZilla settings save path
• Editing configuration of Mozilla applications
• How Windows Generates 8.3 File Names from Long File Names

Mozilla applications

• Managing bookmarks of Firefox
• Firefox : Export bookmarks to bookmarks.html each time the browser shuts down
• Calendar : How do I save my calendar file on a local/network drive
• Thunderbird and Exchange / OWA
• mozillaZine : Outlook Web Access

Excel

• Excel Function Reference (in Korean)
• Excel Date & Time Calculations
• Generate Gantt like chart in Excel (Korean)

Creating or modifying windows service

To create, delete, start or stop a window service, you can use sc command (sc.exe).
The following articles describe the command in detail.

• http://support.microsoft.com/kb/251192
• http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/sc.mspx?mfr=true

A typical example to register new service is like this.

c:\> sc create svn
        binpath= "C:\svn\bin\svnserve.exe --service -r C:\repos"
        displayname= "Subversion Server"
        depend= Tcpip
        start= auto

Note that the equal sign(=) between option name and option value should follow right after option name without any space and should have at least one space before option value. So, if you write depend=Tcpip with the above example, it wouldn't work.

Delete cached password for network drive

At DOS console, run the program like the following.

C:\>control userpasswords2

Find the PID of the process occupying specified TCP/UDP port

At DOS console, run the netstat and filter the result using findstr command.
The example is :

C:\>netstat -nao | findstr 1098

Useful Command-line Tools

pathping

On a windows, you can use pathping command to view the route to the specified IP address.

c:\>patfhping www.google.com

For more about pathping, refer the followings.

• http://www.computerhope.com/pathping.htm
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PathPing

tasklist

Windows equivalent for ps. For example, you can find the program or process using PID of 1544, using tasklist like the following. For complete description of tasklist, refer http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/ntcmds_o.mspx?mfr=true