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Runas Password. Tools and utilities for Windows. Many useful ports of GNU utilities to Win32 by Karl M Syring are available at UnxUtils sourceforge site.

Tools and utilities for Windows

Other useful tools and interesting source code using undocumented native API:s and an Ext2 filesystem for NT project by Adrey Shedel. Click here for update history for this page (last update 17 September 2014) All file dates are in ISO date format, YYYY-MM-DD. This makes the list easier to sort. ImDisk Virtual Disk Driver Current version 1.8.5 built 19 September 2014 ImDisk is a virtual disk driver for Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista/7/8/8.1 or Windows Server 2003/2008/2012. An additional driver, awealloc, in this install package supports memory allocation beyond 4 GB limit on 32 bit Windows through address window extension, AWE.

The ImDisk driver supports forwarding I/O requests to third-party image file format handlers or to services on other computers on the network. About the install package The install package is created using 7-zip sfx stubs and includes an .inf install script. Windows command line Tips -Windows 7, XP, Vista, Server 2003,2008. Batch: Remove file extension. 7 Cool Useful Command Prompt Tips You May Not Know. We do love Command Prompt, don’t we?

7 Cool Useful Command Prompt Tips You May Not Know

If so, why not learning another set of tips and tricks that you may not know to get more out of it? Let’s take look at them. Tip #1: F7 If you think using Doskey to check the command history is cool, this is even cooler. Simply press F7 and a history of the commands you have used in the same session pops up right in the middle. Tip #2: Mode to adjust the size of CMD window Very useful when the output characters extends beyond the 80 characters. Syntax: mode [width], [height] It’s hard to have a nice screenshot to demonstrate, but type in mode 120, 25 in the Command Prompt to see what happens. Tip #3: Color to change the default color of CMD Syntax: color [attr] The color attr are specified by 2 hex digits, the first one presents to the background while the second one responses to the foreground.

Color fc Tip #4: Tree to show off the folder structure Syntax: Tree [drive:][path] [/F] [/A] c:\>tree /a d:\users\s184 > d:\temp\structure.txt c:\>color fc && dir. Redirection. Redirection usually results in temporary files.

Redirection

Some notes on this subject can be found on my Temporary Files page. Read my explanation of standard output and standard error streams. Take a look at some of the examples available, they will give you an impression of the many possibilities of redirection. DosTips - The DOS Batch Guide. DOS - Function Collection. Ln - command line hardlinks. Unroll follows Outer Junctions/Symlink Directories and rebuilds the content of Outer Junctions/Symlink Directories inside the hierarchy at the destination location.

ln - command line hardlinks

Unroll also applies to Outer Symlink Files, which means, that unroll causes the target of Outer Symlink Files to be copied to the destination location. In the above example Folder1 is copied to Destination/Folder1, and Outer Junction/Symlink and all the files/directories below Outer Junction/Symlink Target are copied to the folder Outer Junction/Symlink in the destination. The objective behind unrolling Outer Junctions/Symlink Directories is to get everything with which the source is connected and rebuild it as separate copy in the destination. It resembles the 'hair of the elephant' pattern: Pull on a hair of an elephant, and get the whole elephant. [Raketen]physik.de. Backup.bat inkrementelle Backups mit Hardlinks Lange Zeit habe ich intensiv nach einer zweckmäßigen Lösung für Sicherheitskopien meiner Festplatten gesucht.

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Viele Lösungen waren zu unflexibel oder so 'proprietär', dass ich kein Vertrauen darin hatte. Vollständige Backups sind unnötig und verschwenden viel Speicherplatz, da sich nicht jedesmal der gesamte Datenbestand ändert - inkrementelle Backups sind kompliziert zu handhaben, sofern im Ernstfall die Festplatte für einen bestimmten Zeitpunkt in der Vergangenheit rekonstruiert werden muss.

Die Lösung bietet sich in der Form von Hardlinks an, die mit dem NTFS-Dateisystem ab Windows NT zur Verfügung gestellt werden. Vollständiges Backup einer Festplatte mit allen Dateien erstellen ... danach für alle folgenden Backups ... Windows XP Commands. Batch-Infos. === Batch-Kurs by Horst Schaeffer ===