Documentation FePsTools

Main Window

Below you see the main window of the program.

1. Click on one of the toolbuttons to display to options for the selected PsTool

2. Here you choose the switches/options that should apply to the tool

3. The command line is built while you select options and switches

4. With the Execute command you run the selected tool. Press the Cancel button to stop a running tool. Press the shortcut button to create a shortcut from the command line. Press the help button to display the help output from the selected tool.

Shortcuts

The following keys are available to quickly execute some of the available actions:

F8	Execute the tool
F9	Cancel execution of the tool
Shift + F1	Show the help output of the selected tool
Ctrl + F1	Show the PsTools help page of the selected tool

Settings Window

PsTools Directory

Here you fill in the path to you PsTools utilities.

Hide Password in command line

If you enable this option the password will be hidden in the command line. When you copy the command line or create a shortcut the password will be visible in plain text.

Open last used tab on startup

When this option is checked the program will remember the last selected PsTool and reopen it on startup.

Output Window Color

You can choose to have the output shown in a black window with white characters or in a grey window with black characters.

Computer List

Most of the tools take a textfile with computer names as input. On the Edit computer list window you can edit your computer list. The list is a plain text file and each computer should be on a separate line.

With the Browse Network button you can browse for a specific computer to add to the list.

The Search Network button will search the network for computers and populate the list with the found computer names.

Release Notes

Version 1.0

First version release in june 2004

Version 2.0