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Commands A-M
- A
- @
(Batch)
Used before a batch command so that the command will not be
displayed before it is executed
- ACCDATE
(Config)
Enables/disables recording file last access date
- ACLCONV
(Command)
Converts OS/2 HPFS386 file/directory permissions to NTFS volumes
- ADPREP
(Command)
Prepares Windows 2000 domains and forests for an upgrade to Windows Server 2003
- ANSI.SYS
(Config)
Defines functions that change display graphics,
control cursor movement, and reassign keys
- APPEND
(Command)
Enables programs to open data files in specified directories as
if the files were in the current directory
- ARP
(Command)
Changes the IP-to-Ethernet or token ring physical address
translation tables used by the Address Resolution Protocol
- ASSIGN
(Command)
Redirects requests for disk read/write operations on one drive
to a different drive
- ASSOC
(Command)
Change file extension associations
- ASSOCIATE
(Command)
One step file association
- AT
(Command)
Schedule a command to run at a later time
- ATMADM
(Command)
Monitors connections and addresses registered by the ATM
Call Manager on an ATM network
- ATTRIB
(Command)
Change file attributes
- B
- BACKUP
(Command)
Backs up one or more files from one disk to another
- BASIC
(Command)
BASIC programming language interpreter
- BASICA
(Command)
Advanced BASIC programming language interpreter
- BLAT
(Command)
Public Domain utility that sends the contents of a
file in an e-mail message using SMTP
- BOOTCFG
Configures, queries, or changes Boot.ini file settings
- BOOTCFG /ADDSW
(Command)
Adds BOOT.INI load options
- BOOTCFG /COPY
(Command)
Makes another operating system instance copy
- BOOTCFG /DBG1394
(Command)
Configures 1394 port debugging
- BOOTCFG /DEBUG
(Command)
Adds or changes the debug settings
- BOOTCFG /DEFAULT
(Command)
Designate the default operating system entry
- BOOTCFG /DELETE
(Command)
Deletes an operating system entry
- BOOTCFG /EMS
(Command)
Adds or changes the EMS console redirection
- BOOTCFG /QUERY
(Command)
Displays the [boot loader] and [operating systems] sections
- BOOTCFG /RAW
(Command)
Adds load options to an [operating systems] entry
- BOOTCFG /RMSW
(Command)
Removes BOOT.INI load options
- BOOTCFG /TIMEOUT
(Command)
Changes the operating system time-out value
- BREAK
(Command)
Sets or clears extended CTRL+C (^C) checking
- BREAK.SYS
(Configuration)
Sets or clears extended CTRL+C (^C) checking
- BUFFERS
(Configuration)
Set number of disk buffers
- C
- CACLS
(Command)
Change file permissions
- CALL
(Batch)
Call one batch program from another
- CERTREQ
(Command)
Requests certificate from a certification authority (CA)
- CERTREQ ACCEPT
(Command)
- CERTREQ NEW
(Command)
- CERTREQ POLICY
(Command)
- CERTREQ RETRIEVE
(Command)
- CERTREQ SIGN
(Command)
- CERTREQ SUBMIT
(Command)
- CERTUTIL
(Command)
Certification Authority (CA) utility
- CERTUTIL archival/recovery
(Command)
Key archival and recovery.
- CERTUTIL backup/restore
(Command)
Backing up and restoring certificates.
- CERTUTIL certificates
(Command)
Managing certificates.
- CERTUTIL configure
(Command)
Configuring a Certification Authority (CA).
- CERTUTIL CRLs
(Command)
Managing certificate revocation lists (CRL).
- CERTUTIL decode/encode
(Command)
Encoding and decoding certificates.
- CERTUTIL manage
(Command)
Managing a Certification Authority.
- CERTUTIL troubleshooting
(Command)
Troubleshooting certificates.
- CHANGE LOGON
(Terminal Services Command)
Enables/disables logons from client sessions
- CHANGE PORT
(Terminal Services Command)
Change the COM port mappings
- CHANGE USER
(Terminal Services Command)
Changes .INI file mapping
- CD
(Command)
Change Directory - move to a specific Folder
- CHCP
(Command)
Display or change the active character set for all devices
that support character set switching
- CHDIR
(Command)
Change Directory - move to a specific Folder
- CHKDSK
(Command)
Check Disk - check and repair disk problems
- CHKNTFS
(Command)
Check the NTFS file system
- CHKSTATE.SYS
(Configuration)
Used exclusively by MEMMAKER
- CHOICE
(Batch)
Accept keyboard input to a batch file
- CIPHER
(Command)
Changes the encryption of directories [files] on NTFS partitions
- CLEARMEM
(Command)
Forces pages out of RAM
- CLIP
(Command)
Copy STDIN to the Windows clipboard
- CLS
(Command)
Clear the screen
- CLUADMIN
(Command)
Connect to a server cluster
- CLUSTER
(Command)
Administer server clusters
- CLUSTER GROUP
(Command)
- CLUSTER NETINTERFACE
(Command)
- CLUSTER NETWORK
(Command)
- CLUSTER NODE
(Command)
- CLUSTER RESOURCE
(Command)
- CLUSTER RESOURCETYPE
(Command)
- CMD
(Command)
Start a new CMD shell
- CMDKEY
(Command)
Creates, lists and deletes stored user names and passwords or credentials.
- CMSTP
(Command)
Installs/removes a Connection Manager service profile
- CODEPAGE
(Command)
Selects the code pages that the system will use
- COLOR
(Command)
Change colours of the CMD window
- COMMAND
(Command)
Starts a new instance of the operating system command interpreter
- COMMANDMAIL
(Command)
Commercial command-line SMTP Mailer
- COMP
(Command)
Compare the contents of two files or sets of files
- COMPACT
(Command)
Compress files on an NTFS partition
- CON2PRT
(Command)
Connect or disconnect a Printer
- CONVERT
(Command)
Convert a FAT/FAT32 drive to NTFS
- CONLOG
(Command)
Convert Web server log files to NCSA Common file format
- COPY
(Command)
Copy one or more files to another location
- BREAK.SYS
(Configuration)
Set country-dependent information
- CPROFILE
(Terminal Services Command)
Cleans specified profiles
- CSCRIPT
(Command)
Command-line-based script host
- CSVDE
(Command)
Imports/exports Active Directory data to CSV format file
- CTTY
(Command)
Changes the terminal device used to control your computer
- D
- DATE
(Command)
Display or set the date
- DBLSPACE
(Command)
Enables the loading of the real-mode driver
(DblSpace.bin) into upper memory
- DBLSPACE.SYS
(Config)
Real-mode driver
- DCGPOFIX
(Command)
Restores default Group Policy objects to original state
- DEBUG
(Command)
A program testing and editing tool
- DEFPRINT
(Command)
Set default printer
- DEFRAG
(Command)
Reorganizes the files on a disk to optimize disk performance
- DEL
(Command)
Delete one or more files
- DELOLDOS
(Command)
Delete files from previous versions of DOS
after a 5.0 or 6.0 installation.
- DELSRV
(Command)
Unregisters service
- DELTREE
(Command)
Delete a folder and all subfolders
- DEVICE
(Config)
Set device driver
- DEVICEHIGH
(Config)
Load device driver into upper memory
- DEVINFO
(Config)
Prepares a device to use code pages
- DFSCMD
(Command)
Command-line distributed file system management
- DIR
(Command)
Display a list of files and folders
- DIRUSE
(Command)
Display disk usage
- DISKCOMP
(Command)
Compare the contents of two floppy disks
- DISKCOPY
(Command)
Copy the contents of one floppy disk to another
- DISKPART
(Command)
Manage objects (disks, partitions, or volumes) by using
scripts or direct input
- DISKPERF
(Command)
Controls the types of counters viewed by System Monitor
- DISPLAY.SYS
(Config)
Display international character sets on EGA, VGA, and LCD monitors
- DOS
(Config)
Load DOS into high memory
- DOSHELP
(Command)
Starts operating system command Help
- DOSKEY
(Command)
Edit command-line, recall commands, and create macros
- DOSONLY
(Config)
Prevents starting non-MS-DOS-based applications
from the COMMAND.COM prompt
- DOSSHELL
(Command)
A graphical interface to the operating system
- DRIVER.SYS
(Config)
Phantom floppy support
- DRIVERQUERY
(Command)
List of all installed device drivers
- DRIVPARM
(Config)
Define block device
- DRVSPACE
(Command)
Enables the loading of the real-mode driver
(DrvSpace.bin) into upper memory
- DRVSPACE.SYS
(Config)
Real-mode driver
- DSADD
(Command)
Adds specific types of objects to the directory
- DSGET
(Command)
Displays specific objects selected properties in the directory
- DSMOD
(Command)
Modifies specific types of objects in the directory
- DSMOVE
(Command)
Moves/renames single object within a domain/tree
- DSQUERY
(Command)
Queries Active Directory according to specified criteria
- DSRM
(Command)
Deletes an specific/general object from the directory
- DYNALOAD
(Command)
Dynamically load device drivers from the command line
- E
- E editor
(Command)
OS/2 editor
- ECHO
(Batch)
Display message on screen
- ECHOCONFIG
(Config)
Displays messages during the processing of the MS-DOS
subsystem CONFIG.NT and AUTOEXEC.NT when the MS-DOS
subsystem is invoked
- EDIT
(Command)
A text editor you can use to create and
edit ASCII text files
- EDLIN
(Command)
A line editor to create or modify text files
- EGA.SYS
(Config)
Save/restore EGA monitor for Shell Task Swapper
- EMM386
(Command)
Enables or disables EMM386 expanded-memory support on a computer
with an 80386 or higher processor
- EMM386.EXE
(Config)
80386+ Expanded-memory device driver
- ENDLOCAL
(Batch)
End localisation of environment changes in a batch file
- ERASE
(Command)
Delete one or more files
- Errorlevel, IF
(Batch)
Conditionally executes command if the previous program run
returned an exit code
- EVENTCREATE
(Command)
Create a custom event in specified log
- EVENTQUERY[.vbs]
(Command)
Lists the events and properties from event logs
- EVENTTRIGGERS
Displays/configures event triggers on local or remote machines
- EVENTTRIGGERS /CREATE
(Command)
- EVENTTRIGGERS /DELETE
(Command)
- EVENTTRIGGERS /QUERY
(Command)
- EVNTCMD
(Command)
Displays SNMP events
- EXE2BIN
(Command)
Converts files from .EXE format to binary format
- Exist, IF
(Batch)
Conditionally executes command if filename exists
- EXIT
(Batch)
Quit the CMD shell
- EXPAND
(Command)
Uncompress files
- EXTRACT
(Command)
Uncompress CAB files
- F
- FASTHELP
(Command)
Displays a list of all commands and gives a brief explanation
of each
- FASTOPEN
(Command)
Tracks the location of files on a hard disk and stores
the information in memory for fast access
- FC
(Command)
Compare two files
- FCBS
(Config)
Set control blocks
- FDISK
(Command)
Configure/partitition a hard disk for use
- FILES
(Config)
Set maximum open files
- FIND
(Command)
Search for a text string in a file
- FINDGRP
(Command)
Finds all direct and indirect group memberships
for a specified user in a domain
- FINDSTR
(Command)
Search for strings in files
- FINGER
(Command)
Displays information about a user on a specified system
- FLATTEMP
(Terminal Services Command)
Enables or disables flat temporary folders
- FOR Conditionally perform a command several times
- FOR
(Batch)
Loop through a set of files in one folder
- FOR /D
(Batch)
Loop through several folders
- FOR /F
(Batch)
Loop through items in a text file,
Loop through the output of a command
- FOR /L
(Batch)
Loop through a range of numbers
- FOR /R
(Batch)
Loop through files (recurse subfolders)
- FORCEDOS
(Command)
Starts the specified program in the MS-DOS subsystem
- FORFILES
(Batch)
Batch process multiple files
- FORMAT
(Command)
Format a disk
- FREEDISK
(Batch)
Checks available disk space
- FSUTIL
Perform many FAT and NTFS file system related tasks,
such as managing reparse points, managing sparse files,
dismounting a volume, or extending a volume
- FSUTIL BEHAVIOR
(Command)
- FSUTIL DIRTY
(Command)
- FSUTIL FILE
(Command)
- FSUTIL FSINFO
(Command)
- FSUTIL HARDLINK
(Command)
- FSUTIL OBJECTID
(Command)
- FSUTIL QUOTA
(Command)
- FSUTIL REPARSEPOINT
(Command)
- FSUTIL SPARSE
(Command)
- FSUTIL USN
(Command)
- FSUTIL VOLUME
(Command)
- FTP
(Command)
File Transfer Protocol
- FTYPE
(Command)
Display or modify file types used in file extension associations
- G
- GDISK
(Command)
Ghost disk
- GETDC
(Command)
Get server name for a give domain
- GETMAC
(Command)
Returns the MAC address
- GETTYPE
(Batch)
Sets %ERRORLEVEL% to Windows value
- GLOBAL
(Command)
Display membership of global groups
- GOTO
(Batch)
Direct a batch program to jump to a labelled line
- GPRESULT
(Command)
Displays Group Policy settings and RSOP for a user/computer
- GPUPDATE
(Command)
Refreshes local and Active Directory-based Group Policy settings
- GRAFTABL
(Command)
Loads a table of character data into memory
- GRAPHICS
(Command)
Loads a program into memory that allows MS-DOS to print the
information displayed on your screen
- GWBASIC
(Command)
Basic language command interpreter.
- H
- HELP
(Command)
Starts operating system command Help
- HELPCTR
(Command)
Starts Help and Support Center
- HIMEM.SYS
(Config)
Extended memory manager
- HOSTNAME
(Command)
Prints the name of the current computer
- I
- IF
(Batch)
Conditionally perform a command
- IFMEMBER
(Command)
Checks whether current user is a member of a
specified group
- IISAPP[.VBS]
(Command)
IIS application query
- IISBACK[.VBS]
(Command)
IIS backup management
- IISCNFG[.VBS]
(Command)
IIS configuration
- IISEXT[.VBS]
(Command)
IIS Web service extension
- IISFTP[.VBS]
(Command)
IIS FTP site management
- IISFTPDR[.VBS]
(Command)
IIS FTP directory
- IISREPL[.VBS]
(Command)
- IISRESET
(Command)
IIS restart Web services
- IISSYNC[.VBS]
(Command)
- IISWEB
(Command)
IIS virtual directory
- IISVDIR
(Command)
IIS Web site management
- INCLUDE
(Config)
Include one config-block within another
- INSTALL
(Config)
Load TSR into memory
- INTERLNK
(Config)
(Command)
Connects two computers via parallel or serial ports and enables
the computers to share disks and printer ports
- INTERSVR
(Config)
(Command)
Starts the Interlnk server
- INUSE
(Command)
On-the-fly replacement of files currently in use
by the operating system
- IPCONFIG
(Command)
Configure IP
- IPSECCMD
(Command)
Configures Internet Protocol Security policies in a directory service or in a local/remote registry
- IPSECCMD DYNAMIC/STATIC
(Command)
- IPSECCMD QUERY
(Command)
- IPXROUTE
(Command)
Changes information about the IPX protocol routing tables
- IRFTP
(Command)
Sends files over an infrared link
- J
- JOIN
(Config)
(Command)
Allows access to the directory structure and files of a drive through a directory on a different drive
- K
- KEYB
(Config)
(Command)
Configures a keyboard for a specific language
- KILL
(Command)
Remove a program from memory
- L
- :LABEL
(Batch)
Used as the target of GOTO command(s)
- LABEL
(Command)
Edit a disk label
- LASTDRIVE
(Config)
Specify last system drive
- LDIFDE
(Command)
Creates/modifies/deletes directory objects
- LFNFOR
(Batch)
Enables/Disables Long file names when processing FOR commands
- LH
(Command)
Loads a program into the upper memory area
- LIBPATH
(Config)
Specifies the directories to search for dynamic-link
libraries
- LINK
(Command)
16-bit link system libraries to object program
- LOADFIX
(Command)
Ensures that a program is loaded above the first 64K of
conventional memory, and runs the program
- LOADHIGH
(Command)
Loads a program into the upper memory area
- LOCAL
(Command)
Display membership of local groups
- LOCK
(Command)
Locks a drive, enabling direct disk access for an application
- LODCTR
(Command)
Registers new Performance counter names
- LOGEVENT
(Command)
Write text to the NT event viewer
- LOGMAN
(Command)
Manages/schedules performance counter/event trace log collections
- LOGOFF
(Terminal Services Command)
Terminates a session
- LOGTIME
(Command)
Log the date and time in a file
- LPQ
(Command)
Diagnostic utility obtains status of a print queue on a
LPD server computer
- LPR
(Command)
Connectivity utility to print a file to a LPD server computer
- M
- MACFILE
(Command)
Manage File Server for Macintosh servers, volumes, directories, and files
- MACFILE DIRECTORY
(Command)
- MACFILE FORKIZE
(Command)
- MACFILE SERVER
(Command)
- MACFILE VOLUME
(Command)
- MAKECAB
(Command)
Cabinet (.CAB) archive file maker
- MAPISEND
(Command)
Send email from the command-line
- MD
(Command)
Create new folders
- MEM
(Command)
Display memory usage
- MEMMAKER
(Command)
Optimizes your computer's memory by moving device drivers
and memory-resident programs to upper memory
- MENUCOLOR
(Config)
Set text and background color
- MENUDEFAULT
(Config)
Specify default menu item
- MENUITEM
(Config)
Define an item on the startup menu
- MIRROR
(Command)
Used to store information about a disk's file allocation
table, boot record, and root directory
- MKDIR
(Command)
Create new folders
- MMC
(Command)
Microsoft Management Console
- MODE Configure a system device
(Command)
- MODE
(Command)
Configure Printer
- MODE
(Command)
Configure Serial Port
- MODE
(Command)
Display Device Status
- MODE
(Command)
Redirect Printing
- MODE
(Command)
Set Device Code Pages
- MODE
(Command)
Set Display Mode
- MODE
(Command)
Set Typematic Rate
- MORE
(Command)
Display output, one screen at a time
- MOUSE.SYS
(Config)
Mouse pointer driver
- MOUNTVOL
(Command)
Manage a volume mount point
- MOVE
(Command)
Move files from one folder to another
- MRINFO
(Command)
Queries specified multicast router
- MSAV
(Command)
Scans your computer for known viruses
- MSBACKUP
(Command)
Backs up or restores one or more files from one disk onto
another
- MSCDEX
(Command)
Provides access to CD-ROM drives
- MSD
(Command)
Provides detailed technical information about your computer
- MSG
(Terminal Services Command)
Send a message to a user
- MSIEXEC
(Command)
Install, modify, and perform operations on Windows Installer
- MSINFO32
(Command)
Windows NT diagnostics
- MSTSC
(Terminal Services Command)
Creates/edits/migrates connections to terminal servers or other
remote computers
- MUNGE
(Command)
Find and Replace text within file(s)
- MV
(Command)
Copy in-use files
Last Updated: 2006/01/01
Direct corrections or suggestions to:
Rick Lively