Archive for August, 2007

Be gone, Windows Update reminder

Published at 2 August, 2007 in Windows. 0 Comments

A quick way to stop Windows Update from asking you to reboot is to simply:

  1. Go to Start, Run
  2. Type ‘net stop wuauserv’, and click OK

This will stop the service. I don’t see this as a problem, as the Windows Update client isn’t going to download any more updates while waiting for a reboot anyway. Once you reboot, the service will start again.

Obviously this will only work if you’ve got the correct privileges to stop and start services in Windows.

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Poor Man’s Grep (Windows)

Published at 2 August, 2007 in SysAdmin and Windows. 2 Comments

You can filter out text strings in Windows command prompt by piping the output to the ‘FINDSTR’ command. See below for an example:

netstat -an | findstr 192.168.1.15
TCP    192.168.1.10:1088       192.168.1.100:8080       ESTABLISHED

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