As time goes on, there are more and more people that have absolutely no clue how to use the Command Prompt in Windows. It is true you can get the vast majority of what you need to get done Windows without ever having to go to the Command Prompt, however for certain things such as IPCONFIG (seen in video below), you must go to the prompt in order to actually use...

Certain commands in Windows Vista and 7 require “elevation” in order to execute. For example, if you run NETSTAT -B, a notice will appear that states: The requested operation requires elevation. What does this mean exactly? It’s means you need additional permission(s) to execute the operation. This is done by executing a Command Prompt as...

Here are a few quick tips you can do from the command prompt in Windows XP (this will actually work in all versions of Windows since 3.1): Getting a listing of every single frickin’ thing on your hard drive in a single text file Command: DIR /S C:\*.* > C:\all.txt This will write a text file of every single file on your system (excluding hidden files)...

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