Launching command prompt (cmd) on remote Windows machines

Another feature, I was always missing in Windows, is the ability to launch the command prompt on the remote windows machines.
In Unix it's trivial: telnet or ssh allows to launch the shell.

It appears that in Windows PsExec of the Sysinternal Suite solves this problem:
The following command launches an interactive command prompt on \\marklap:

psexec \\marklap cmd

Desktops v1.0

Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell have recently released a Desktops application as part of the Sysinernal Suite. Desktops allows you to organize your applications on up to four virtual desktops. Read email on one, browse the web on the second, and do work in your productivity software on the third, without the clutter of the windows you’re not using. Unix users are usually familiar with this feature and have it built in their UI frameworks. But in Windows it was always missing.
Especially nice that it comes in one file of 117KB size and requires no installation.

Thanks to LiM for first sharing this stuff.

Removing informational balloons in Windows

The following registry file will do the job:

remove_balloons.reg

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
"EnableBalloonTips"=dword:00000000

via Ynet (Hebrew)

Running "cmd" from current page in Windows Explorer

The following registry file will do the job:

cmd_here.reg

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\CMD here]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\CMD here\command]
@="C:\\WINDOWS\\System32\\cmd.exe /k cd \"%1\""

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