Can't get into PCAnywhere after re-boot.

If you're luck enough to be the Administrator on the remote PC and running Windows2000 locally (and Windows NT or better remotely) do the following:

1. Right-click on 'My Computer', select Manage
2. From the Action menu, select 'Connect to another computer...'
3. Enter the name of the PC you need to control. Press OK.
4. From the 'Services and Applications' tree, select Services.
5. From the right-pane, select the pcAnywhere service.
6. Right-click on the service and select 'Start'
7. Close 'Computer Management' and attempt connection through pcAnywhere.

Note: If you need to do this from a command prompt (or you have WindowsNT) you may also use netsvc.exe from the Windows NT Resource Kit.

Create a folder based on today's date.

Though this can be applied in many ways, the WindowsNT/2000 Command Prompt has some powerful differences over the old MS-DOS Batch Language. the FOR command is just one difference. The delimiters specified and the order of the variables (%a, %b, %c) will depend on your localized settings. By default the following should create a folder called '20031129' (based on November 29th, 2003).

FOR /F "tokens=2,3,4 delims=/ " %a in ('date /t') do mkdir %c%a%b

This could be applied to a daily backup procedure using PKZIP from a command-line.