Finding and killing application processes in the command prompt on Windows XP

To find PID or process name

tasklist.exe

Note: Not available in Windows XP Home edition by default. Google and download it.

To kill the PID or process name, look for tskill.exe under c:\windows\system32\

tskill.exe PID | PROCESS NAME

Stop restart popup after automatic updates in Windows XP

Absolutely annoying feature of windows is a popup that keeps asking you to restart the system after a Windows update. Disable that!

# Disable current popup from the command prompt

net stop "automatic updates"

# Disable future auto restarting of system. 
# I'm using Windows XP Home so can't access gpedit.msc. 
# Need to use a registry script instead --> stop_update_restart.reg
# P.S. note the first line.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU]
"RebootRelaunchTimeoutEnabled"=dword:00000000
"NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers"=dword:00000001

Download file from Linux machine to Windows machine using SCP

- Download PSCP.exe (http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html)
- Open up Command Prompt
- Type the following

# Eg. if my pscp.exe is on my Windows desktop

"C:\Documents and Settings\Jason\Desktop\pscp.exe" jasonong@IP_ADDRESS_OF_LINUX_MACHINE:./PATH/TO/FILE "c:\Temp"

X Forwarding in Windows

XMing + Putty

- XMing & launch XLaunch
- Launch Putty, making sure that "SSH" > "Enable X11 forwarding" is checked and "MIT-Selected-Cookie-1" is selected.

Connect linux and windows machine via hamachi vpn gotcha

Make sure window's firewall is off...