MS Windows

In Windows 10, you can use Ctrl+C to copy and Ctrl+V to paste. If they don't work, right click the command prompt titlebar, select Properties and then the Options tab, and turn on "Enable Ctrl key shortcuts". In this same properties page, you may also find "Enable line wrapping selection" and "Extended text selection keys" useful.

http://www.nivot.org/blog/post/2016/02/04/Windows-10-TH2-%28v1511%29-Console-Host-Enhancements

show path 1 item per line

echo %PATH:;=&echo.%

echo %PATH% | tr -s ';' '\n'

python -c "import os; print os.environ['PATH'].replace(';', '\n');"

C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_65\bin

C:\DEV\ant\bin

C:\Python27

C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages

C:\Python27\Scripts

C:\WINDOWS\system32

C:\WINDOWS

C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem

C:\WINDOWS\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\

C:\Program Files\WIDCOMM\Bluetooth Software\

C:\Program Files\WIDCOMM\Bluetooth Software\syswow64

C:\Program Files (x86)\ATI Technologies\ATI.ACE\Core-Static

C:\Program Files (x86)\Skype\Phone\

C:\Program Files\Git\cmd

C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\bin

C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin

Windows 8

http://h20435.www2.hp.com/t5/The-Next-Bench-Blog/WIN-8-Tips-HP-touchpad-Gestures/ba-p/80207#.Uu8ZRXddVjo

http://h20435.www2.hp.com/t5/The-Next-Bench-Blog/8-Great-Windows-8-Links/ba-p/80149#.Uu8Za3ddVjo

Empty recycle bin for all users

rd /s C:\$Recycle.Bin

http://www.itworld.com/software/368598/running-linux-windows-pc-your-getting-started-guide

http://habrahabr.ru/company/xakep/blog/260881/

http://guac-dev.org/ client-less VNS and RDP

WINDOWS KEY + R = run window

WINDOWS KEY + E = explorer

WINDOWS KEY + D = desktop

WINDOWS KEY + Space = quick desktop

WINDOWS KEY + X (external monitor config)

How to close laptop's lid and use external monitor ONLY:

Control Panel -> Hardware and Sound > Power Options -> Change What the Power Buttons Do

Quick launch:

1) Create a shortcut http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/create-keyboard-shortcuts-to-open-programs

in your Windows installation path, such as C:/Windows

2) Win+R and type the name of shortcut

http://www.keyboard-and-mouse-sharing.com/

http://synergy-foss.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_button

services.msc

SQL in MS Excel

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9783022

Fill PDF

http://www.pdfescape.com/

http://www.pdfill.com

http://www.foxitsoftware.com/

PDF, epub chm, mobi, DjVu reader: Sumatra PDF

http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/free-pdf-reader.html

Windows Search

http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack

http://www.autohotkey.com/

http://voidtools.com/

SSH/X11/

http://askubuntu.com/questions/4096/what-free-remote-desktop-server-solutions-are-there

http://www.montanalinux.org/remote-display-protocols-in-abundance.html

http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1adhfm/do_you_rdp_into_your_linux_systems_if_so_what_do/

https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/twiki/view/CF/LinuxRemoteDesktop

http://www.techradar.com/us/news/software/applications/7-of-the-best-linux-remote-desktop-clients-716346/2

Remmina

http://remmina.sourceforge.net/

http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/FreeNX

http://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php

http://freenx.berlios.de/

http://opennx.net/

http://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/

http://www.xrdp.org/

http://www.nomachine.com/

http://iain.cx/nx/ no machine hacks

https://github.com/noodle1983/putty-nd

http://www.bitvise.com/tunnelier

Remote destkop connection manager

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=21101

Startup watcher

http://www.mlin.net/StartupMonitor.shtml

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902 AutoRun!

DRIVERS

http://www.ma-config.com/en

http://driverscollection.com/?H=ThinkStation%20D20

http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/research/hints-or-tips/detail.page?DocID=HT037675

chkdsk /r

BSOD dump analysis

http://pcsupport.about.com/od/findbyerrormessage/tp/stop_error_list.htm

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff558949(v=vs.85).aspx

SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION 03B ( 0x00080000000003, .., ,)

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/715-memory-diagnostics-tool.html

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-vista/how-do-i-know-if-my-computer-has-a-memory-problem

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/101379-driver-verifier-enable-disable.html

To turn off Driver Verifier, bring up an admin cmd prompt & type verifier.exe /reset - then reboot.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315263

http://www.resplendence.com/whocrashed

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/blue_screen_view.html

How to download file from command line on Windows 7

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4619088/windows-batch-file-file-download-from-a-url

bitsadmin.exe /transfer "Jobname" http://downloadurl/myfile c:\destination\myfile

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa362813.aspx

Tip

Add C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin to PATH. That folder contains much more than just git, there are windows versions of many gnu/linux command line tools, like ls, grep or cat

To quickly open a command prompt window in the current folder (while browsing in windows explorer), by typing cmd in the address bar

Antivirus

http://www.microsoft.com/security/default.aspx

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/security-essentials-download

http://www.microsoft.com/security/pc-security/malware-removal.aspx

Redirecting extension in Chrome : "Default Extension 1.0"

chrome://extensions/

-------------------------

- Check the check box that says "Developer Mode"

- Click on the Default 1.0 extension

- You should now see where the files for this extension are physically stored on your hard drive

- In my case the folder for this rogue was located at: C:\Users\xxx\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default

- Delete the "DefaultExtension" folder

- Launch Chrome and confirm solved

malicious redirect click.livesearchnow.com

http://deleteroguethreats.blogspot.com/2012/10/clicklivesearchnowcom-removal-help-how.html

http://www.pctools.com/security-news/web-search-result-redirection/

http://free.pctools.com/free-software/malware-removal/

http://www.ehow.com/how_5842581_remove-google-redirect-virus.html

https://productforums.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/webmasters/IcgcRdStFzs

Free books from Microsoft

http://habrahabr.ru/post/148937/

https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=7D379C7F959D3DDF&id=7D379C7F959D3DDF%21241

Deleting hiberfil.sys

From command-line (as administrator!)

powercfg -h off

Managing pagefile.sys

http://blogs.technet.com/b/markrussinovich/archive/2008/11/17/3155406.aspx

Block selection in Notepad++

To select columns without using the mouse use ALT+SHIFT and the cursor keys

Alt + Left Mouse Click” puts you in Column Mode Select

cron in Windows

timeout /t 16680 /nobreak

start "alarm" "C:\Users\Public\Music\Sample Music\Kalimba.mp3"

Hard drive issues

http://habrahabr.ru/company/storelab/blog/151892/

UNIX tools for Windows

http://www.mingw.org/

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/tmdp6/computer_experts_whats_a_computer_trick_you_think/

XServer for Windows

http://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/en/index.php

Mobaxterm is just a Pascal wrapper around Cygwin to make it a little more Windows-y and less *nix-y.

http://www.nomachine.com

http://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/392935:remote-linux-desktops-with-nomachine-nx

free edition is that it will only allow two simultaneous connections

sudo /usr/NX/bin/nxserver --restart

startx

Sometimes gnome-session do not start: look into .cfg files

/usr/NX/etc/server.cfg

/usr/NX/etc/node.cfg

CommandStartGnome = "/etc/X11/Xsession gnome-session"

And replace it with this line:

CommandStartGnome = "/usr/bin/gnome-session --session=gnome-classic"

http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/

http://rodgersnotes.wordpress.com/2012/01/15/mobaxterm-vs-xming-remote-connections-to-redhat-5-5/sharing monitor/keyboard between computers

PuTTY

http://marknelson.us/2011/10/11/automating-putty/

http://dag.wieers.com/blog/improving-putty-settings-on-windows

http://blog.sanctum.geek.nz/putty-configuration/

cmd /C - close window after running putty -pw <password> <login_user>@<hostname>. For running a file of commands -m c:\path\to\file\of\linux\commands.txt

Make shortcut to avoid typing passwordC:\putty.exe –ssh -pw <your password> <your username>@<server name/IP>

http://www.uberullu.com/prevent-putty-session-from-going-inactive-how-to/

putty+ssh

http://habrahabr.ru/blogs/linux/39254/

http://habrahabr.ru/blogs/infosecurity/127521/

Use PuTTYgen to generate a private/public SSH key pair:

http://theillustratednetwork.mvps.org/Ssh/copSSH-WinSCP-KeyPair.html

http://blog.brynmosher.com/2010/10/01/get-svn-ssh-syle-checkouts-in-windows

PuTTY tabs: https://github.com/phendryx/superputty

PuTTY session manager: http://puttycm.free.fr/cms/

http://blog.brynmosher.com/2010/10/01/get-svn-ssh-syle-checkouts-in-windows/

Putty ALTERNATIVES

http://www.bitvise.com/tunnelier

http://terminals.codeplex.com/

SecureCRT http://www.9bis.net/kitty/

http://www.clearconnex.com/content/clearterminal

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2945566 --> tabbed puty

Tabbed Putty: SuperPutty and others

https://github.com/noodle1983/putty-nd

http://code.google.com/p/superputty/

http://www.ttyplus.com/downloads.html

https://sites.google.com/site/macdsite/utilidades/puttytabmanager

http://superuser.com/questions/143052/ssh-client-what-are-some-alternatives-to-putty-that-use-tabs

http://www.mremoteng.org/

http://www.netsarang.com/products/xsh_overview.html

COPY FILES FROM LINUX TO WINDOWS

using putty util pscp:

pscp -r -unsafe -scp fffadm@ls9306:/sapmnt/trexarchive/trex_archive/tpc-h/sf1/ .

Console2/Terminal

http://www.ayera.com/teraterm/ SSH client, like PUTTY

http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/ MultiTab console for Windows

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/Console2ABetterWindowsCommandPrompt.aspx

https://code.google.com/p/clink/

https://github.com/cbucher/console

http://terminals.codeplex.com/

Conemu

http://code.google.com/p/conemu-maximus5/

http://habrahabr.ru/post/164687/ ConEmu

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ConEmuTheWindowsTerminalConsolePromptWeveBeenWaitingFor.aspx

http://www.mehdi-khalili.com/an-experiment-with-git-vim-posh-git

Better substitution for cmd.exe

http://gooseberrycreative.com/cmder/

Cmder is a metapackage of 3 other packages configured for easy out-of-the-box use:

1) ConEmu for the console emulation.

2) Clink for the improved cmd.exe usage.

3) MSYS for the *nix tool ports.

CoreUtils for Windows: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/coreutils.htm. The GNU Core Utilities are the basic file, shell and text manipulation utilities of the GNU operating system. These are the core utilities which are expected to exist on every operating system

MSYS and MSYS2

http://www.mingw.org/wiki/msys

http://sourceforge.net/projects/msys2/

Cygwin is a full port of POSIX-compatible userland by means of thecygwin1.dll which implemented POSIX APIs in terms of Windows APIs. As a result, any programs built using the Cygwin toolchains depended oncygwin1.dll. However, Cygwin is licensed GPL (not LGPL), so any such code would have to also ship under GPL (there are exceptions for OSS software, and you can also buy a license from Red Hat).

MinGW is an effort to make gcc produce Windows binaries without any dependence on a DLL. This is done by providing the Windows headers and whatever stub libraries required.

MSYS is a small subset of GNU userland tools built with MinGW toolchains, such that common POSIX software (e.g. autoconf/make-based projects) can successfully be built. These tools include things like bash so you can run make and so on.

MSYS2 is a re-imagining of Cygwin, but one that ships with a powerful command-line package manager (pacman, the official package manager of the Arch Linux project), and attempts to provide vanilla upstream packages.

mingw-w64 is another separate effort to make gcc produce Windows binaries without any dependence on a DLL (similar to MinGW), but has had better success at keeping up with the latest gcc versions. This toolchain can confusingly produce 32-bit and 64-bit binaries.

msysGit is a fork of the MSYS project, that builds git along with the other basic GNU userland tools.

BACKUP AND RECOVERY

http://www.computerra.ru/terralab/softerra/634923/ Data Recovery

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ABasicNoncloudbasedPersonalBackupStrategy.aspx

Startup Control

http://tcpmonitor.altervista.org/startupeye-monitor-registry-startup/ Startup Modifier Guard

http://www.mlin.net/StartupMonitor.shtml

List of tools

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ScottHanselmans2011UltimateDeveloperAndPowerUsersToolListForWindows.aspx

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3351923

http://www.itworld.com/data-centerservers/183005/15-incredibly-useful-and-free-microsoft-tools-it-pros

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/AnalyzeYourWebServerDataAndBeEmpoweredWithLogParserAndLogParserLizardGUI.aspx LogParser