Randomly Intermittent Thoughts » Utilities http://www.nathanblomquist.net/blog Thoughts I have pondered, but may not be wholely original... Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:32:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 When you want your computer to sleep for the Winter, call on Wizmo! http://www.nathanblomquist.net/blog/2010/02/19/computer-sleep-for-the-winter-call-on-wizmo/ http://www.nathanblomquist.net/blog/2010/02/19/computer-sleep-for-the-winter-call-on-wizmo/#comments Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:27:34 +0000 nblom http://www.nathanblomquist.net/blog/?p=83 Yesterday I was digging around the interwebs looking to find out how I can hibernate a computer from the command line. My first thought was “Oh, the shutdown command might work”, but nope. It doesn’t have a hibernate option. Then I went to Google and did a search for it. A forum thread lead me to Wizmo. This is a freeware utility that can hibernate a computer plus a lot more. I think this is getting added to my toolbox of tools!

Thanks Steve!

]]> http://www.nathanblomquist.net/blog/2010/02/19/computer-sleep-for-the-winter-call-on-wizmo/feed/ 0 More Utilities/Programs/Tools http://www.nathanblomquist.net/blog/2009/08/13/more-utilitiesprogramstools/ http://www.nathanblomquist.net/blog/2009/08/13/more-utilitiesprogramstools/#comments Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:12:19 +0000 nblom http://www.nathanblomquist.net/blog/?p=59 More tools that I think I are vital. Was just reading an article about what things to backup during an OS reinstallation, so I thought I would post some more of the utilities I found useful or needed.

I think that is enough for now! More to come when I think of them.

]]> http://www.nathanblomquist.net/blog/2009/08/13/more-utilitiesprogramstools/feed/ 0 The Simple Things in Life (or the Tools/Utilities I Find Most Useful) http://www.nathanblomquist.net/blog/2009/07/29/the-simple-things-in-life-or-the-toolsutilities-i-find-most-useful/ http://www.nathanblomquist.net/blog/2009/07/29/the-simple-things-in-life-or-the-toolsutilities-i-find-most-useful/#comments Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:39:42 +0000 nblom http://www.nathanblomquist.net/blog/?p=48
  • Baretail, ‘tail -f’ for Windows:
    http://www.baremetalsoft.com/baretail/
  • CommitMonitor, I’z n yr Subversion, wachin’ yr commits:
    http://tools.tortoisesvn.net/CommitMonitor
  • The Whole Sysinternals Suite, Windows Exposed:
    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals
  • Notepad++, Editing Made Easy:
    http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net
    • ]]>     http://www.nathanblomquist.net/blog/2009/07/29/the-simple-things-in-life-or-the-toolsutilities-i-find-most-useful/feed/ 0     Yet Another Reason to Love Process Explorer — Part 2 http://www.nathanblomquist.net/blog/2007/10/12/yet-another-reason-to-love-process-explorer-%e2%80%94-part-2/ http://www.nathanblomquist.net/blog/2007/10/12/yet-another-reason-to-love-process-explorer-%e2%80%94-part-2/#comments Fri, 12 Oct 2007 20:27:46 +0000 nblom http://www.nathanblomquist.net/blog/2007/10/12/yet-another-reason-to-love-process-explorer-%e2%80%94-part-2/ This is a bit different from my last post about Process Explorer. Process Explorer is so powerful that I accidentally killed a different process than I wanted. This wasn’t through some fancy schmancy search with regular expressions and kill accident. I just highlighted a process and clicked the Process Explorer Red X.

    I then proceeded to click ‘Yes’ on the simple dialog: pe_are_you_sure_want_to_kill_xxxx.PNG.

    Notice the blackened out word at the end of the Dialog’s text? Well that is essentially what my brain did when I read that dialog.

    So, long story short I killed the wrong process. Nothing seemed to break for a few hours. Then when I went to debug a couple of things, I wasn’t able to connect to a service that was supposed to be running. I restarted somethings on my end, then remembered, “Oh yeah, I killed a random process earlier.” I restarted the killed service and lo and behold everything started working again.

    Lesson learned here kids: Don’t kill random processes and then wonder why stuff breaks!

    Process Explorer is part of the Microsoft Sysinternals set of utilities.

    ]]>     http://www.nathanblomquist.net/blog/2007/10/12/yet-another-reason-to-love-process-explorer-%e2%80%94-part-2/feed/ 0     Yet Another Reason to Love Process Explorer — Part 1 http://www.nathanblomquist.net/blog/2007/10/08/yet-another-reason-to-love-process-explorer-part-1/ http://www.nathanblomquist.net/blog/2007/10/08/yet-another-reason-to-love-process-explorer-part-1/#comments Mon, 08 Oct 2007 15:26:41 +0000 nblom http://www.nathanblomquist.net/blog/2007/10/08/yet-another-reason-to-love-process-explorer-part-1/ Well, I just found another reason to love Process Explorer here: How To Identify What Programs Started svchost.exe in Windows.

    This article describes how to use the command line and/or Process Explorer to find out what the hell svchost.exe is doing.

    Open a command prompt and enter:

    tasklist /svc /FI “IMAGENAME eq svchost.exe”

    The above command will list all the svchost.exe processes and display the programs (DLL’s) that have been started by svchost.exe.

    Process Explorer is part of the Microsoft Sysinternals set of utilities.

    Hopefully, this will become a series of posts. We’ll see!

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