Below is the list of commands that can be run from windows command prompt (CMD). You can follow the link given for a command to see the syntax and examples. At: Schedule tasks Attrib: Set file attributes Bootcfg: Enable kernel debugging copy: Copy files Cls: Clear command window screen Compact: Compress or decompress files and [...]
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We do not need to download special tool to search for classes in jar files. This post explains how to do that without the use of any additional tool. You need to have java sdk installed on your machine to use this tip. If you are a java developer, you might already have it on [...]
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In Windows, we can find the physical memory size from command line. We can do this either using systeminfo or wmic commands. Both the commands are given below. 1. Using systeminfo command systeminfo | findstr /C:”Total Physical Memory” Example: C:\Users\srinisa>systeminfo | findstr /C:”Total Physical Memory” Total Physical Memory: 3,794 MB 2. Using WMIC command wmic [...]
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To find out if guest account is enabled on your computer, you can run the below command net user guest | findstr /C:”active” Example: c:\>net user guest | findstr /C:”active” Account active No To enable guest account from command prompt: Open elevated administrator command prompt and run the below command. net user guest /active:yes Example: [...]
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This post talks about how to rename file extensions in bulk using simple commands. No 3rd party tools are required. At the end of the post, you can find a download link for the batch file script. Change file extensions in bulk: We can change the extension of files in the bulk using rename command. [...]
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In Windows, we can kill processes running on a remote computer using the taskkill command. We can specify process id/image file name/user name to identify the processes that need to be killed. Below you can find the syntax for each of the cases with examples. Kill remote process using process id. The syntax for this [...]
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We can start webclient service from command prompt using the below command net start webclient C:\>net start webclient The WebClient service is starting. The WebClient service was started successfully. C:\> Note that this command should be run from a login account with administrator privileges. Additionally, on Vista and Windows 7, this should be run from [...]
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If you want to log an event in any of the event log files, then you can do that using eventcreate command. Logging an event helps the system administrators to trace out things if something has not worked in an expected way. Using this command, we can create a custom event with custom id and [...]
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Windows 7 provides a new command sleep which can be used in batch files or command prompt to pause the execution and wait for some time. In previous Windows editions(XP and Server 2003), this command is not available. Users of these Windows editions can download Windows resource kit tools for obtaining sleep command. Syntax of [...]
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The labels of disk drives(volumes) can be changed from windows command line using label command. In the command, we need to specify the drive letter for which we need to change the label. Note that drive letter and drive label are different. In the below snapshot, drive letter is C: and drivel label is ‘Windows [...]
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