Wildcards can be pretty helpful when doing some basic tasks either from the Windows GUI or the beloved command prompt. Let’s take a look at the frequently used wildcard * for doing some simple but effective stuff. For understanding purposes,I have created a folder called textfiles in C: with the following files : apples.txt,oranges.txt,bananas.txt,applejuice.txt,orangejuice.txt.bananajuice.txt Let’s …
User Account Control is a new security feature in Windows Vista to prevent execution of unauthorized applications. If tired of annoying popups that seem to come when you try to run any application in Vista,it means UAC is in charge of your access. I will show two ways to disable UAC in Windows Vista -the …
In a domain based environment,Windows clients get their settings from a domain controller.These settings or policies are called group policy objects or GPOs. Whenever a new or modified GPO is applied to a client yet the client can’t seem to reflect those changes,gpupdate/force from command prompt is commonly used to refresh all GPOs on the …
>I admit I like netsh.This thing can show you show much of what you want to see without doing much and that too from the command prompt which is even cooler. What do you normally do when you want to see which DNS server you are using? You use nslookup most of the times from …
>Task manager in Windows is useful,but what about tasklist? Tasklist is a command line utility in Windows XP Professional(not in Home)onwards. Let’s say I want to see all the processes and their associated dlls which are running on my Windows box just by using a simple command prompt.I can use tasklist to accomplish that,here is …
There are many useful commands and the shortcuts to invoke them in Windows. One such widely overlooked but a sure time saver is the command history popup window from Windows command prompt. As Windows users/power users/admins,we use command prompt to varying extent and yes it does get boring to type the command that we typed …