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WinPing – Enhanced Ping for Windows
Another great tip from Help Desk Geek
The Windows ping command is probably one of the most commonly used commands for IT Administrators! It’s used to check that network connections between two machines are working or that a computer/server is up and running.
Even though I like the ping command, I would prefer a tool that is more powerful. That’s where a free program like WinPing comes in real handy.
WinPing is a free program that you can use to test your network connection. Simply enter a valid host name or IP address and WinPing will ping the address and give you back the results.
When you start the program, which requires no installation by the way, you will get a window where you can enter the host name you want to ping and some other buttons.
To get started, go ahead and type a host name and press the Ping button.
It will convert a host name to IP addresses and vice versa. It quickly pings the host name and gives you the results in milliseconds. So that’s pretty much the same as using the normal command prompt right?
Well the first difference is that you can easily save the results of your pings out to a text file. You can export ping output easily by pressing the Save button.
But what’s the point of just saving a small set of ping output? That’s when the program start coming in handy Click on the Options button and you’ll see this window:
Here is where you can configure the settings for the program. MultiPing allows several pings one after the other. Under Time, the Timeout is the duration in milliseconds under which a response should be received to not be considered timed out.
The Tempo is the amount of time in milliseconds between each ping (default it is set to 0). Under Misc, you can show averages so as you perform pings over time, you can quickly see what the average response time is.
Also, here you can tell the program to show the Country name, which is very cool. The programs comes with a huge databases of IP address mapped to Country names, so if you ping an IP Address for a server in France, it’ll actually tell you that.
The best part of the Options, however, is the fact that you can turn on an Infinite Loop. You can also do this with the standard ping command, but with WinPing, you get really cool real-time graphs. Enable Infinite Loop and choose a Tempo that is slightly higher. Then click OK.
Now click Ping again and you’ll start to see a continual ping with the average response time at the right:
Now click on the Graph button at the right and you will see a real-time graph of the data.
Pretty neat eh! You can click the Options button and then save the current curve out by clicking Save. All the boxes at the top that have “PingCurve1”, etc in them are if you want to load up several ping curves that you had saved out previously.
If you want to compare several ping curves, this tool is great. Do an infinite loop for a set amount of time and then load each curve up.
Overall, WinPing is a great tool for IT administrators who want more advanced ping functionality
Windows 7 – Delete Hibernation File (hiberfil.sys)
Here's a great tip originally from www.helpdeskgeek.com
In Windows 7, you the hibernation file can still take up a large amount of space on your hard drive.
In this post, we will show you how to delete the hiberfil.sys file and how to turn off hibernation. You can free up a decent amount of space by doing this.
Delete Hiberfil.sys File
To delete this file, you have to use the command prompt to manually turn off hibernation. If you turn off hibernation via Power Options (which I will show you next), it will not delete the actual file itself.
Open a command prompt in Windows 7 by typing command in the search box. Right click Command Prompt and choose Run as Administrator.
To turn off or disable hibernation, type the following command at the prompt:
powercfg –h off
This will disable hibernation and will remove the hiberfil.sys file from your system.
Turn Off Hibernation in Windows 7
To disable hibernation in Windows 7, you have to go into Power Options and click on Change plan settings.
Then click on the Change advanced power settings link at the bottom.
Now expand Sleep and then expand Hibernate after. Change the value of On battery and Plugged in to 0 minutes. Note that the option will not even be available if you turned off hibernation using the command line.
Hopefully, you can reclaim some lost disk space by getting rid of the hiberfil.sys file in Windows 7
Administrator Utility: Take Control of Running Processes
If you’re an IT Administrator, it’s always good to know what processes, services, drivers, and active network connections are running on your computer or server. We’re all used to the Task Manager in Windows, but it’s not as detailed as some people want and others have a “love – hate” relationship with it.
What’s Running is a free program for Windows XP, Vista and 7 that gives you a detailed look of everything that is running on your system.
So what kind of information can you get from What’s Running? Here’s a quick overview:
Processes
You can fully control your processes from What’s Running and get detailed information and stats, such as CPU usage, memory usage, and IO for each process.
You can also see which services are running inside a process and what IP connections each process has open. You can start, stop, and set priority also.
Services
You can start and stop services or get detailed information about each service, such as which processes run inside the service. You also get information such as the startup account name, the startup type, and more.
IP Connections
We like this tab especially since you can quickly see all active Internet and network connections for the system. You can see which ports (local and remote) are listening and which process and program is using that port.
Startup Programs
You can also skip out on having to use MSCONFIG to manage startup programs in Windows too. You can disable startup programs or delete them completely if you like. It will find all startup programs regardless of whether they are in the registry or in the Startup folder. You can create your own startup programs also.
System Information
Lastly, you get detailed system info about your PC such as OS version, Service Pack, installed memory, processor info, and more.
The other nice feature of the program is that you can take a snapshot of all your services and processes, etc and then compare it to another snapshot that you take later on.
This way, you can setup a system and then see all the new processes, services, drivers, etc that are created when you install a new program, for instance. Overall, it’s a very polished program for Windows. The version for Windows 7 is still in beta, but works fine. Enjoy!
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