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Quickly Open Windows Command Prompt As Administrator In Current Path

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You may have noticed that when executing the Command Prompt Utility – usually shortened to cmd – from Start Screen or Start Menu, it opens up in your user folder when run it as normal, and in the System32 folder when launched as Administrator. This can be fairly annoying if you simply want to open another CMD window in your current path, the reason being you then have to enter a few 'cd' commands to navigate to your desired directory. ELE from WinAero is a fantastic application that can save you from this hassle. This lightweight portable application lets you launch a new elevated Command Prompt window i.e. with Administrator privileges right in your current selected folder path. Lets find out how it works. Read More

Map FTP Server As Local Disk Drive With FtpUse

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Although Windows 7 allows users to map a remote location as network drive over FTP, it often fails to register the FTP account upon Windows logon, which compels users to manually map the network location after logging into Windows. FtpUse is a simple CLI based application for Windows operating system that lets you map FTP servers as local disk drive from Windows CMD. All it needs is a connection string including FTP host address, username and password to connect & map a FTP location. Moreover, if you want to connect with the remote server upon Windows logon, you can create a batch script, and then put it in Startup folder to establish FTP server connection as soon as you log into Windows. Read More

Gow Is Alternative To Cygwin, Brings 130 UNIX Commands To Windows

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If you’re an avid Linux user and just started with Windows, you must be familiar with Cygwin, a tool that provides Linux-like environment on Windows, bringing the utility of porting tools running on POSIX, i.e Linux, BSD and Unix system to Windows OS. GOW (Gnu on Windows) is a small, easy to use, yet powerful alternative to Cygwin that brings more then 100 extremely useful UNIX applications and commands to Windows. It provides a total of 130 CLI-based UNIX commands, which can be run from Windows Command Line Interpreter. The application has been specifically designed to bring those UNIX binaries, which don’t have easy to use installers available for Windows. Read More

EMCO Remote Console – Run Windows CLI Console Remotely For Connected PCs

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Network tools are designed to gain complete control over nodes connected in LAN, but most of them are devoid of features to run command line console from remote locations. Therefore, it leaves administrators to a point where they have to manually launch the command line utilities on client systems or send commands to nodes in order to execute them. If you want to use the CLI console to perform basic Windows, disk, and network related tasks on connected nodes remotely from admin system, you need a tool like EMCO Remote Console. Read More

Cascade Windows Console And Change CMD Colors With ColorConsole

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Users who deal with Windows CMD utility every day hate not having enough options to change colors, open multiple windows quickly, use tabbed interface, open Windows CMD in web browsers, etc. Today we have come across yet another previously featured Console-like alternative for Windows Command Line Interpreter, called ColorConsole. Aside from adding colors to background of Windows CMD window, it incorporates a slew of GUI related features to make working in Windows command line environment not only easier but productive too. Additionally,  it offers MDI based multi-tabbed interface which lets you open multiple tabs to work at multiple locations, cascade opened CMD windows in main interface, and send whole CMD interface as HTML page to default browser. Read More

Console Is Multi-Tabbed And Customizable Alternative To Windows CMD

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Do you work extensively in Windows Command Line Interpreter and miss some much-needed GUI related features which would’ve made using Windows CMD utility a lot easier? Console is little nifty replacement for Windows CMD. It incorporates multi-tabbed MDI based user interface allowing user to work in as many CMD windows as they want. You can rename any opened tab, apply different background and font color, change window opacity to view underlying workspaces, and, importantly, make use of text editors like text selection options to perform copy operations between opened Windows consoles seamlessly. The Console was designed to empower those who struggle using Windows classic CMD and often need to open multiple windows to run different commands concurrently. If you, for instance, open multiple CMD windows to ping servers for checking server response time and connectivity issues, with Console, instead of running multiple instances, just open a new tab to execute a different command set. Read More

PowerCMD – GUI Alternative To Windows Command Line With Upto 4 Consoles

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Windows Command Line Interpreter is something which hasn’t seen many improvements in past, from Windows 98 to Windows 7, you can notice only 3 or 4 major improvements in terms of usage and interface-related enhancements. PowerCmd is an application which gives CLI-based Windows Command Prompt exactly what it's devoid of - Graphical User Interface. It not only provides GUI based controls to CMD but offers handling of multiple panels (upto 4 consoles) at a time. Furthermore, it integrates with Windows Shell to open any file in CMD from right-click context menu. The application is mainly targeted towards users who extensively deal with Windows CMD, requiring more than 2 CMD windows in front of them all the time. The application features revolve around giving the best Windows style-like UI while letting users pause/resume consoles with a single click. Read More

Quickly Create TrueCrypt Containers With TruPax

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TruPax is a portable application which aims to bring ease in creating TrueCrypt containers. For those who don’t have clue about TrueCrypt - it is an eminent opensource encryption program which comes with a long list of encryption algorithms to let users encrypt files and drives on the fly. The process of creating a Truecrpt container is simple but a bit dragging, since you need to specify multiple options in its wizard to create one. Trupax is built to shorten the lengthy process to create encrypted containers without demanding any pre-requisite, even TrueCrypt installation. Read More

RegFileExport Can Export Keys And Values From Corrupt Registry File

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RegFileExport is a command line application developed by Nirsoft for exporting data from offline registry file located on another disk drives. It is also capable of exporting registry keys and values from corrupted registry files, which comes useful in instances when you are unable to export registry file or even access it from Windows build-in registry editor. It requires two or three parameters to be passed for performing the operations correctly. Read More

Windows 7 Advanced Disk Defragmentation

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The defragmentation process searches your disk partitions and makes sure that the stored files are in one contiguous piece which results in better system performance. If you want to maintain your file system then the easiest and perhaps the most important way is that you should routinely defrag your drives. Windows 7 has many added features in comparison to Windows Vista and XP, and one of them is the Advanced Disk Defragmentation feature. Just like Windows Vista, Windows 7 lets you easily perform common disk defragmentation tasks from the command line as well. In this post, we will take a look at how to perform advance disk defragmentation in Windows 7. Read More

How To Customize The Command Prompt(cmd) In Windows Vista/Windows 7

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Do you like the default Command Prompt screen in Windows? If not, then you can customize it to your needs by changing the layout, font, and color. There are many reasons why users customize their command prompt, some increase the width because they have to write long codes, some change the size of their fonts to look bigger, etc. The default command prompt style is too common these days, to make mine different I changed the background so that it can match the Windows 7 wallpaper on the desktop.

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