October 2009 - Posts

Live system to vhd tool
Fri, Oct 9 2009 9:43

Sysinternal has just released an amazing tool to convert a live system into a working .vhd file.

“Disk2vhd is a utility that creates VHD (Virtual Hard Disk - Microsoft’s Virtual Machine disk format) versions of physical disks for use in Microsoft Virtual PC or Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs). The difference between Disk2vhd and other physical-to-virtual tools is that you can run Disk2vhd on a system that’s online.”

Downlaod it from http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/ee656415.aspx

by Adriano | with no comments
Execute shell commands without invoking the interpreter
Thu, Oct 8 2009 13:40

Question: “I need to run the rd command from the runonce key in the registry. If i write the command line “rd C:\folder”, the system reply with the error message: rd command not found”

Answer: “The problem is that the rd command needs to be executed by the CMD shell. To make it works without opening the shell window, you have to execute “cmd /c rd C:\folder

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Sync bookmarks among different browsers
Mon, Oct 5 2009 14:28

With Xmarks you can sync bookmarks amongst different browsers or between browser on different machines. If you have a pc at home and another one at office, you can sync your bookmarks or your site password ( the last one only with Firefox) . You can save it on Xmarks server as well on your personal location.

All for free. It support Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari

Site : http://www.xmarks.com/ 

by Adriano | with no comments