Two tools that I use frequently when troubleshot issues on servers are Process Explorer and Process Monitor. Since these are not windows built in tools (though they owned by Microsoft), I always have to go to Sysinternals site and download them one by one.
I just notice that SysInternals tools are accessible over a public UNC, all I need to do now to get latest system internals tools is just access \\live.sysinternals.com\tools. Great time saver! Continue reading
Now windows have snipping tool in Vista and Win7.
You can use Snipping Tool (normally you can find it at %SystemRoot%\system32\SnippingTool.exe) to capture a screen shot, or snip, of any object on your screen and then annotate, save, or share the image. Simply use a mouse or tablet pen to capture any of the following types of snips:
After you capture a snip, it’s automatically copied to the mark-up window, where you can annotate, save, or share the snip.
Vista and WIN7 now supports symbolic links, a feature that has been enjoyed in UNIX for a long time.
D:\>mklink
Creates a symbolic link. MKLINK [[/D] | [/H] | [/J]] Link Target /D Creates a directory symbolic link. Default is a file
symbolic link.
/H Creates a hard link instead of a symbolic link.
/J Creates a Directory Junction.
Link specifies the new symbolic link name.
Target specifies the path (relative or absolute) that the new link
refers to.
Fiddler is an HTTP debugging proxy that logs all HTTP traffic between your computer and the Internet. Fiddler enables you to inspect all HTTP traffic, set breakpoints, and "fiddle" with incoming or outgoing data. Fiddler is much simpler to use than NetMon or other network debuggers because it exposes only HTTP traffic and does so in a user-friendly format.
Fiddler can be downloaded from http://www.fiddlertool.com/
MSCDCRC is a CRC checking tool. It can be used to verify all files in media have no errors to avoid hours later wasted installing with bad media.
Here is example of command output:
d:\tools\bin>mscdcrc.exe e:
MSCDCRC 4.11 CD-ROM Disc Verification Utility Copyright (C) Microsoft, 1992-2004
MSCDCRC: Verifying disc in drive E: (3,858,216,960 bytes)
100% complete
MSCDCRC: Computed CRC is 0xBBE6FE57
MSCDCRC: SHA1 hash is 0xDBE664734075EC582FFF4245D89F1AAFBDAB1CC2
MSCDCRC can be downloaded here
This useful command lets you wait for signals from other command windows or even across the network.
waitfor.exe is in windows\system32 directory.
The simple case for the tool is in one command window you do a “waitfor foobar” and it’ll block until in another window you do a “waitfor /SI foobar”.