Useful commands for avoiding the mouse or scripting. From my favorite tech blog My Digital Life. Here’s the link to the article. Reproduced below (for my future reference):
10 New Executables in Vista
- BcdEdit - Use to edit Boot.ini
- DxConfig - DirectX configuration
- iCacls
- MkLink - Use to create symbolic or hard link
- MSconfig
- net user administrator activate:yes - Use to activate the hidden ‘real’ Administrator account
- Slmgr or Slmgr.vbs - Software Licensing Manager for Vista activation
- Powercfg - Control power setting on the system
- VSSadmin - Volume shadow copy administration
- Ctrl + Shift + Enter keyboard sequence - Execute a program with Run as administrator privileges
20 Old Commands found in Windows Vista and XP
- DiskPart - Text-mode command interpreter to manage objects (disks, partitions, or volumes)
- DriverQuery - Displays a list of all installed device drivers and their properties
- FSutil - Command-line utility to perform FAT and NTFS file system related tasks
- IPconfig - Windows IP configuration
- Netsh - command-line scripting utility to display or modify the network configuration of local or remote computer
- NSLookup - DNS look up
- Openfiles - Queries or displays open files
- Ping
- Path
- Robocopy
- SC - command line program to communicate with the Service Control Manager and services.
- SFC /scannow /verifyonly - Check and fixe system files corruption
- Shell:sendto - Manage the convenient Send To shortcut menu
- Shutdown with or without /r restart switch
- Taskkill - Kill a process
- Tasklist - List all processes
- Tracert - Traceroute
- Tree - Display folder structure
- Ver - Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6000]
- whoami - If you can’t remember who are you
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