http://live.sysinternals.com/<tool>.exe

e.g.

http://live.sysinternals.com/procexp.exe

This works better in Internet Explorer than Firefox, since you can run the tool without saving it first.

Searches for a text string in a file or files.

FIND [/V] [/C] [/N] [/I] [/OFF[LINE]] "string" [[drive:][path]filename[ ...]]

/V         Displays all lines NOT containing the specified string.
/C         Displays only the count of lines containing the string.
/N         Displays line numbers with the displayed lines.
/I         Ignores the case of characters when searching for the string.
/OFF[LINE] Do not skip files with offline attribute set.
"string"   Specifies the text string to find.
[drive:][path]filename
Specifies a file or files to search.

If a path is not specified, FIND searches the text typed at the prompt
or piped from another command.

this can be useful with the netstat command:

netstat -ano | find /i ":80"

or when viewing the DNS cache:

ipconfig /displaydns | find /i "google"

Although that isn’t ideal since the output of ipconfig isn’t really formatted to play nicely with the find command.

Reference: http://nzpcmad.blogspot.com/2007/07/dos-grep-equivalent-find-command.html

If you make changes to DNS and want to test the results straight away, you need to clear the cache with:

ipconfig /flushdns

You can view the current cache with:

ipconfig /displaydns

or

ipconfig /displaydns | more

to see a screen at a time

When synchronizing offline files, some files give an error:

“Unable to make ‘Filename.ext’ available offline on \\Server\Share\Folder. Incorrect function.”

Solution found here

1. Open My Computer
2. Goto Tools–>Options
3. Click on the Offline Files tab.
4. Hold down CTRL+SHIFT and click DELETE FILES. This will completely clear the client cache and re-sync after a reboot.

“Files of this type cannot be made available offline” Error

Error message:

“Warnings occurred while Windows was synchronizing your data. Results: Offline files. Unable to make file name available offline. Files of this type cannot be made available offline.”

To suppress error message for specific file types:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\NetCache\ExclusionErrorSuppressionList]
“*.pst”=dword:00000000
“*.mdb”=dword:00000000
“*.db?”=dword:00000000
“*.ldb”=dword:00000000
“*.mde”=dword:00000000
“*.mdw”=dword:00000000
“*.slm”=dword:00000000

To change the error message display for all types: (from here)
To change this default behavior, use Registry Editor (Regedt32.exe) to locate the following key in the registry:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Syncmgr]

Add the following registry value:

Value Name: KeepProgressLevel
Data Type: REG_DWORD
Value: 1 (hexadecimal)

You can add the following values and then quit Registry Editor:

1 – Pause on errors.
2 – Pause on warnings.
3 – Pause on errors and warnings.
4 – Pause and display INFO.