PC Advisor

If you see a smilar error in Windows XP or you kill the process explorer.exe, sometimes you get to lose all your desktop icons and buttons from your screen. This is because the process "explorer.exe" has died.

But, can we restart explorer.exe and how ?

•  Press ctrl+alt+del
• Open Task manager
• Go to the Applications Tab
• Press the button New Task
• Type "explorer" and press enter

When you have 2 operating systems in your computer, it is rather usual to want to exchange files between them. The problem is that although many linux distributions can read windows file systems (FAT32 and NTFS), windows cannot read linux file systems (most commonly used ext3).

A rather useful freeware utility which allows you to read linux file system files under windows is DiskInternals Linux Reader.

You can find the utility in DiskInternals web site.

In order to search for a specific text pattern inside every file in every subdirectory of a given path in linux one can do:

grep -r "text to search for" *

In windows a good way to obtain linux benefits is to download cygwin. You can find cygwin in:

www.cygwin.com

Cygwin is a linux like enviroment for windows which allows you to run *nix programs in  Windows.

Running grep from cygwin is a lot faster and more stable than searching inside files with windows explorer.