65 Useful CMD Commands to Understand Your Windows Networks and Systems in a Better Way

Cmd or command prompt in Windows have been one of the very places in Windows where you can get things done by your way. Now the main problem is we don’t get to know about all the commands we should to help ourselves. So here is a collection of 65 of such commands which are used to  monitor network activities as well as system issues of your Windows which will not only take you through the processes you want to but also open some unknown doors to you. So all the best

1. ADDUSERS Helps Add or list users to/from a CSV file
2. ARP Address Resolution Protocol
3. ASSOC Change file extension associations
4. ASSOCIAT One step file association
5. AT Schedule a command to run at a later time
6. ATTRIB Change file attributes
7. BOOTCFG Edit Windows boot settings
8. BROWSTAT Get domain, browser and PDC info
9. CACLS Change file permissions
10. CALL Call one batch program from another
11. CD Change Directory - move to a specific Folder
12. CHANGE Change Terminal Server Session properties
13. CHKDSK Check Disk - check and repair disk problems
14. CHKNTFS Check the NTFS file system
15. CHOICE Accept keyboard input to a batch file
16. CIPHER Encrypt or Decrypt files/folders *
17. CleanMgr Automated cleanup of Temp files, recycle bin
18. CLEARMEM Clear memory leaks
19. CLIP Copy STDIN to the Windows clipboard.
20. CLS Clear the screen
21. CLUSTER Windows Clustering
22. CMD Start a new CMD shell
23. COLOR Change colors of the CMD window
24. COMP Compare the contents of two files or sets of files
25. COMPACT Compress files or folders on an NTFS partition
26. COMPRESS Compress individual files on an NTFS partition
27. CON2PRT Connect or disconnect a Printer
28. CONVERT Convert a FAT drive to NTFS.
29. COPY Copy one or more files to another location
30. CSVDE Import or Export Active Directory data
31. DATE Display or set the date
32. Dcomcnfg DCOM Configuration Utility
33. DEFRAG Defragment hard drive
34. DEL Delete one or more files
35. DELPROF Delete NT user profiles
36. DELTREE Delete a folder and all subfolders
37. DevCon Device Manager Command Line Utility
38. DIR Display a list of files and folders
39. DIRUSE Display disk usage
40. DISKCOMP Compare the contents of two floppy disks
41. DISKCOPY Copy the contents of one floppy disk to another
42. DNSSTAT DNS Statistics
43. DOSKEY Edit command line, recall commands, and create macros
44. DSADD Add user (computer, group..) to active directory
45. DSQUERY List items in active directory
46. DSMOD Modify user (computer, group..) in active directory
47. ECHO Display message on screen
48. ENDLOCAL End localisation of environment changes in a batch file
49. ERASE Delete one or more files
50. EXIT Quit the CMD shell
51. EXPAND Uncompress files
52. EXTRACT Uncompress CAB files
53. FC Compare two files
54. FDISK Disk Format and partition
55. FIND Search for a text string in a file
56. FINDSTR Search for strings in files
57. FOR Loop command: all options Files, Directory, List
58. FORFILES Batch process multiple files
59. FREEDISK Check free disk space(in bytes)
60. FSUTIL File and Volume utilities
61. FTP File transfer protocol
62. FTYPE Display or modify file types used in file extension associations
63. GLOBAL Display membership of global groups
64. GOTO Direct a batch program to jump to a labelled line
65. HFNETCHK Network Security Hotfix Checker

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