Windows command prompt is the
powerful tool for people who like to access and manage their system in the most
efficient and effective way at the same time it shows you are far away from the
basic windows operating system user. Frequently I like to use systeminfo in windows 7 and Vista for quickly display
the details and properties of the system skipping the long place of going to control
panel or right clicking my computer and go to properties ooh its boring. To
access the registry and play with “registry” keys I simply have to type regedit command and the registry window
will pop up and I can easily perform my operation concerning keys and other
stuffs. Sometimes the computer become very slowly and you cannot access some of
the programs due to the programs you installed in the computer recently the
easiest way to reach “add and remove program” is to type within the black
screen of the command prompt appwiz.cpl this
will take you directly to the “add or remove” features of the windows operating
systems.
The user can also access the task
manager quickly by simply typing taskmgr
this will display the task manager pop up window and allow you to monitor process
and performance of the system. The command prompt also gives you an easy of
access help by typing (/?) you will
be able to get detailed information of the command and how it works. For
example consider the command shutdown
If you type [shutdown/?] the following
details will be displayed
Usage: shutdown [/i |
/l | /s | /r | /g | /a | /p | /h | /e] [/f]
[/m \\computer][/t xxx][/d [p|u:]xx:yy [/c
"comment"]]
Display help. This is the same as typing /?
/?
Display help. This is the same as not typing any options.
/i
Display the graphical user interface (GUI).
This must be the first option.
/l
Log off. This cannot be used with /m or /d options.
/s
Shutdown the computer
/r
Shutdown and restart the computer
/g
Shutdown and restart the computer. After the system is
rebooted, restart any registered applications
The options
allow you to do a lot of things by just one command keyword [shutdown]. The
command prompts keywords can be used in network operations such as checking the
Information Protocol configuration by simply typing ipconfig and place enter. By typing ipconfig followed by (/?) different
options using different parameters will be displaced to allow you to have the ease
of access. Other windows command prompt keywords can be found from here.
By Jumanne Mtambalike
By Jumanne Mtambalike