Add new features for cmd.exe and Powershell

At Microsofts website there’s a package named “Sysinternals Suite” that contains 146 tools that you can make to be usable in cmd.exe and Powershell.

The package contains lots of missing features/commands that is very usable if you’re running Windows on your PC.

For example you’ll be able to use commands such as “whois NordicNode.com” and other tools that can display all kinds of information about your computers hardware, software and currently active processes and even more cool things.

Add command tools for Windows for extra features

Lets get going with the HOWTO.

1: Start by download the package called “Sysinternals Suite” at Microsofts website.

Now, make a folder somewhere on your computer and extract the zip file to that directory.

2: Click on the Windows startmenu button and type “Edit environment variables for your account” and click on it.

In the top listbox there should be a line with the variable name “Path”, select it and click “Edit…”.

3: Now, click “New” and type the location the directory that you extracted the zip file to.

4: Done! Try out the tools in CMD.exe or PowerShell.

The Best Free RAMDisk for Windows 32 & 64-Bit!

I’ve tried several RAMDisk softwares before I found one that were free and worked under Windows 10 64-Bit.
The RAMDisk I use is called ImDisk Toolkit, and I find it pretty much perfect. It got plenty of features which should cover pretty much every users needs.
It might also save a lot of write cycles on your precious SSDs. 😉

RAMDisk for Windows

You can set it up to mount ISO-files and other image file formats if you want to.
Or setup a folder on one of your hard drives and have the content inside it copied to the RAMDisk every time you boot up your PC.
It can also be setup to save the stuff you currently got stored on the RAMDisk to a directory of your choice before you shut down your PC.

You can download ImDisk Toolkit here!

Visual Subst – Virtual Drives Shortcuts To Folders

Visual Subst is a great tool to save some time while browsing the filesystem. For example, if you got a download folder in c:\my folder\documents\download\ you can simply create a virtual drive for it like x:\ or something like that.

So you can more easily browse to that folder within a second instead trying to find it when there’s 100’s of folders. It’s very useful if you have many different folders you need to access often.

Website: Visual Subst