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quite a list, man - thx!

I like “winver” a lot, cause on the old and faulty Windows box it takes time to retrieve this info with mouse.

Who needs this crap!?
Windows is obsolete the way I look at it. I love my Mac, and do not interact with MS PCs anymore, which makes me very happy!

Well, yea - make sure you can type “firefox” alright, and forget “iexplorer”

The irony kills me. Get a life twat.

wtf wrote:
“MAC’S SUCK ASS. I’m sorry, but they do. I use Unbuntu. iexplorer doesn’t open a browser, dumbass. BTW, If you don’t use firefox, you are in fact computer retarded.”

Sucks to be you Mac and Linux users. I’m going to play the latest cutting edge games while you stare at your desktop! Suck it!
J/K =)
Instead of making idiot remarks about other peoples OS why don’t you give reasons why you think it’s better than any other OS. I’ve used linux a lot BUT I can’t get any of the games I play to work no matter what. (Yes i’ve used wine). I’ve never used a mac before simply because.. Why? My windows box can do anything a mac can do for what I need it for. But that doesn’t mean I won’t love it if I ever get the opportunity to get one! Anyway good article.

There’s a program that let’s you make you own commands: http://www.softpedia.com/get/Programming/Other-Programming-Files/Batch-File-Maker.shtml

@drezta
Thanks for the tip. I checked it out (cedega) and it seems to be 55 dollars a year, or 5 dollars a month depending on your options.
As for consoles I have no money haha. I’m currently going to school for computer networking and have a 3 year old and another on the way! I’m still trying to scrape money to take my certifications! So maybe in a year or so I can get a console. Everybody else I know has a PS3 or 360 and I’m jealous.

@ Andrew
Thanks I’ll have to check it out

I’ve never published my personal list except for on a private forum of mine but you guys may like, I apologize for duplicates from above but I’m not going to go through to delete all the duplicates:

Firefox Shortcuts
Spacebar (page down)
Shift-Spacebar (page up)
Ctrl+K (go to search box)
Ctrl+L (go to address bar)
Ctrl+F (find)
Alt-N (find next)
Ctrl+D (bookmark page)
Ctrl+T (new tab)
Ctrl+= (increase text size)
Ctrl+- (decrease text size)
Ctrl-W (close tab)
F5 (reload)
Alt-Home (go to home page)

Go to the address bar (Control-L) and type the name of the site without the “www” or the “.com”. Let’s say “google”. Then press Control-Enter, and it will automatically fill in the “www” and the “.com” and take you there - like magic! For .net addresses, press Shift-Enter, and for .org addresses, press Control-Shift-Enter.

Open a command window executing a command leaving window up
cmd /k commandhere
ex: cmd /k ipconfig
tip: combine multiple commands with & ipconfig & ping 192.168.1.1

View Last Reboot Time
net statistics server | more

Open a command window executing a command closing window
cmd /c commandhere
ex: cmd /c ipconfig>C:\ipconfig.txt (saves ipconfig to ipconfig.txt then closes cmd window)

Run a program as another user
runas /user:domain\username appname
ex: runas /user:jeffk cmd.exe
Tip: it’s useful to open a cmd.exe and run all your commands from this cmd.exe as all children will be ran with it’s credentials. Then just goto task manager and right click the cmd.exe and kill the tree so you don’t leave any privledged programs up

Tip2: Since you can’t do a runas on explorer.exe you can run internet explorer with runas credentials and then type the path in like C: in the location bar you then are effectively in a runas of explorer

Note: You must have the Secondary Logon Service on for this to work

Reset a local users Password:
net user USERNAME *
ex: net user jeffk *

Remote Desktop into Console of specific computer
Mstsc /v:computername /console
Ex: mstsc /v:deserver /console

Map a network Drive
Net use drivename: \\server\share
Net use z: \\daserver\music

Force network credentials
Net use \\server\sharename /user:domain\user
Ex: net user \\daserver\music /user:jeffk
Tip: Before using this you may want to issue net use * /d to delete previously stored credentials, or you can view your credentials by just typing net use

Find Current Hostname
In cmd.exe type hostname
Tip:use cmd /k hostname from run

Windows Key Shortcuts
Windows+D (Show Desktop)
Windows+R (Same as clicking start>Run)
Windows+L (Lock Computer)
Windows+Pause/Break (System Properties)
Windows+E (Explorer)

Misc Shortcuts
\ - When typed at the Run dialog brings you to your root drive.
Home/End - Begining/End of line, not really a shortcut but overlooked
Ctrl+Home/End - Position the cursor to the very first/last position in the file.
F2 – Rename A file (while file is selected)
F3 Open Search/Find
Shift+F5 (Refresh Page and Cache in IE)
F4 Pull down drop down list in explorer
F6 Select Location Bar in IE and firefox
Shift+Del – Delete with sending to recycling bin
Ctrl+H Is Search & Replace in most editors
Alt+Space (Bring Up Minimize Maximize context window)
Ctrl+Esc (Windows Key Equivalent)
Ctrl+Alt+End (Send Ctrl+Alt+Del to remote desktop)
Ctrl+Shift+Esc (Task Manager)
Ctrl+Ins (Copy Text from Message Box)
Alt+Printscreen (Printscreen only the focused window)
Ctrl+Arrow Key (Left or Right) (Move the cursor over one word at a time, hold shift also to select the words)
ALT+Double Click on an Icon (Open Properties)
Ctrl+Drag (Copy Whatever is selected to dropped location, works on text, files, icons…)
Ctrl+Scroll Wheel (Increase/Decrease font size in IE/Firefox)
Ctrl+Enter in the location bar in IE (adds www. and .com to whatever you typed)
Ctrl+G Takes you to a specific line in notepad

Regjump from sysinternals (jumps you to a specific key in the registry)
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/Miscellaneous/Regjump.mspx
Put regjump.exe in your %windir%\system32 folder…
Start>run regjump keyname
Ex: regjump hklm\software

Environmental Variables (use these at start>run to quickly goto or anywhere in explorer) (Also see This)
Tip: Type set to see your variables
%windir%
%systemdrive%
%appdata%
%userprofile%
%programfiles%
%allusersprofile%

Start>Run>system or Start>Run>system32 {enter} to bring up the corresponding folder

Tip: Sadly some people don’t know that when asked to save you can type in a drive letter or an environmental variable and press enter it’ll take you to that folder/drive then you can specify a filename to save.

Tip2: When Saving a file if you type the filename in quotes it doesn’t matter what you select in the drop down list to save as so put like “blah.cmd” in notepad when saving it and it’ll save it as .cmd not .txt without having to select *.* from the drop down

Tip3: In explorer when saving or opening you can filter them by typing *.extension. For example to view only mp3 files type *.mp3 and press enter

Tip4:
In explorer make sure one icon is selected then just start typing the filename and it’ll take you to it.

Tip5: The icons in the top left of the title bar in explorer are fully functional, so if you right click it you’ll have the same options as if you’d right click the folder up a level.

Create a new folder
Do this in sequence: Right Click>press w>press f

Create a new text file
Do this in sequence: Right Click>press w>press t

For all the commands below click Start>Run or press Windows+R then type the following:
Control Panel Applets
appwiz.cpl (Add/Remove Programs)
ncpa.cpl (Network Connections)
sysdm.cpl (System)
nusrmgr.cpl (User Account Management)
desk.cpl (Display Properties)
inetcpl.cpl (Internet Settings)
powercfg.cpl (Power Configuration Settings)
firewall.cpl (Firewall Settings)

Domain Administration (Install support tools)
dsa.msc (Active Directory Users and computers)
dssite.msc (Active Directory Sites & Services)
adsiedit.msc (ADSI edit)
wuauclt /detectnow (automatically detect if new WSUS updates are available)
GPResult (Resultant Set of Policy)
Gpupdate /force /boot /logoff /target:computername
dsquery computer -name %hostname% (Find the OU the computer resides in)
dsquery user -name %username% (Finds the OU the user resides in)
dsquery computer -desc “text here*” (Finds a computer name based on info in the desc)
Other MMC stuff
fsmgmt.msc (Shared Folders)
compmgmt.msc (Computer Management)
gpedit.msc (Policy Editor)
devmgmt.msc (Device Manager)
diskmgmt.msc (Disk Management)
lusrmgr.msc (Local User Management)

Misc Run Commands
shutdown –a (Abort a shutdown)
control (Open the Control Panel)
control folders (Folder Options)
control printers (Printer Folder)
logoff (Log Off Windows)
eventvwr (Event Viewer)
winver (Show Your Version Of Windows)
firefox
photoshop
excel
winword
nero
pbrush - Microsoft Paint
taskmgr - Task Manager
tasklist – Task Manager
wmplayer (Windows Media Player)
odbcad32 (ODBC Administrator)
sndvol32 - Launch Volume control
osk - On Screen Keyboard
control schedtasks - Scheduled Tasks
wupdmgr - Launch windows update

In Windows XP Pro you can type

wmic csproduct > csproduct.txt

This creates a text file with info about your PC System info like Motherboard type and serial number, etc.

wmic cpu > cpu.txt (gives alot of info about your processor(s))

Type WMIC /? for all the nifty things you can query on your PC. Some of the information is displayed in a very wide format so it’s good to pipe it into a txt file so you can scroll to the right.

Very cool I like it so much Good work

Very nice. I have needed some of these in the past. thanks

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nice list, probably handy when i need to fix something, but surely I wont remember where i founf it when that happens..

omg, can we not talk about which is the best OS? whatever, let each one use the one they like! man…

On windows or guidos whatever you may prefer, the best thing ever is to get freedom from mouse and click - that’s what these commands (CLI) are all about.

Wnnna get real freedom while on gui - get “launchy”. and what not you can do.

Believe me not but you yourself, try launchy once and you will love the keyboard. Tell me if not.
btw, launchy ver 2.0 is not cool, its chilly man.

oh yes you will need all those command (the fuel) to drive this super car - launchy.

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Great Post! I really like ipconfig /displaydns and ipconfig /registerdns. Thanks Again!

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