When using Windows XP and previous operating systems one could easily send messages from one computer to another by using the "Net Send" command from the command prompt. Typing a command like this:

Net send Support "Please contact help desk immediately!"

Would result in the computer searching for the location where the user Support has last logged on, or in case of a computer, where the computer called Support is listed, and would send that message to that user or computer. You should note that this method of sending messages was made available by the Messenger service running on the target machine. Without it, there could be no messages transmitted to that computer.

Note: Windows XP SP1 (or was it SP2? I can't remember right now) disabled the Messenger service by default. So does Windows Server 2003 SP1.

Long story made short, when using Windows Vista one might go looking for the "Net send" in Vista and wonder where it went. There is NO "Net send" command in Vista… However, there is a solution. You can use MSG.EXE instead.

Note: Apparently Windows Vista Home Basic and Home Premium editions do not have the msg.exe command installed. It does work on Vista Business, Enterprise or Ultimate edition.

Click on the Start button, type CMD in the search box and press Enter.

Sometime when you try to install new programs you get the following message:

If you are using Windows Vista, a required component, DHTMLED.OCX, is no longer distributed with the operating system, however it can downloaded and installed from Microsoft download center

TeraCopy is a compact program designed to copy and move files at the maximum possible speed, providing the user a lot of features:

• Copy files faster. TeraCopy uses dynamically adjusted buffers to reduce seek times. Asynchronous copy speeds up file transfer between two physical hard drives.
• Pause and resume file transfers. Pause copy process at any time to free up system resources and continue with a single click.
• Error recovery. In case of copy error, TeraCopy will try several times and in the worse case just skips the file, not terminating the entire transfer.
• Interactive file list. TeraCopy shows failed file transfers and lets you fix the problem and recopy only problem files.
• Shell integration. TeraCopy can completely replace Explorer copy and move functions, allowing you work with files as usual.
• Full Unicode support.

There are a lot of way and tools to take a screen shot in windows, but here we will discuss two easy and quick tools.

For those who use windows vista
Windows Vista comes with a free screen capture or screenshot utility, namely Snipping Tool. Windows Vista Snipping Tools is simply and very easy to use to capture screen shoots. It basically has only 3 command buttons:

• New and with options of capture areas of (Free-form Snip, Rectangular Snip, Windows Snip and Full-screen Snip)
• Cancel which enabled automatically once you start a capturing process.
• Options

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