bcdalai's Free Tech. Support Blog: [http://bcdalai.blogspot.com] Windows Command Guide 2010 Version 3.4 (May 2010 updates) No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess. –Isaac Newton Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. –Oscar Wilde Persistence and positive thinking to make things happen. Welcome to the “Windows Command Guide”. In this guide you will find all types of Windows commands. This guide includes every possible command; those are available on a Windows platform. There are many long and unusual commands, those you may not use commonly – but, these commands available in Windows platform whether you know it or not. If you have more information, then please share with me. For more information visit the website. About this Article: As every Windows user knows what a command is, so there is no need for describing it. This guide contains 440+ Run commands and 580+ additional Windows commands. This guide contains approx. 1000+ Windows commands in various categories. This is very useful for everyone using – desktop, laptop and server. The objective of this guide is to know more about Windows commands, internals features and to speed up the administrative tasks. See the version number to check the latest updates and new release. Document History: (updated: v3.4) Time Changes 2010 Version 3.xx: 75+ GUID, shell commands, latest updates and revision. 2009 Version 2.xx: major updates: 300+ Run commands; 95+ Rundll32 commands; 120+ Environment Variables; 150+ Command-line tools; 75+ Control Panel Applets Canonical names on Vista SP2, 2008 SP2, Windows 7 and Office 2010. 2008 Version 1.xx: with more added commands with Vista and Server 2008. 2004-07 Initial use, testing and first publication on 2007. About the Author: bcdalai, MCSE, MCTS. The author is an IT pro working on Desktop, Server and Networking. He works as system administrator, Tech. 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Thanks: I‟m greatly thankful to all the readers for reading and sending feedbacks to me. - 1 - © 2004-2010, bcdalai bcdalai's Free Tech. Support Blog: [http://bcdalai.blogspot.com] Contents Chapter – 1 Windows Run Commands Network Run Commands Run Commands in Windows Vista Run Commands in Windows Server 2008 Run Commands in Windows 7 Chapter – 2 Run Commands for Third-party Programs Control Panel Applet Commands Command-line Tools: Windows XP / 2003 Command-line Tools: Vista / Server 2008 / Windows 7 Advance Rundll32 Commands A. Windows 2000 / XP / Server 2003 B. Windows Vista / Server 2008 / Windows 7 Chapter – 3 Commands-cum-Shortcuts Unique and Special Commands Relative System Paths with Shell commands Environment Variables Chapter – 4 Recovery Console Commands Command Descriptions Appendix: A. ESSENTIAL NOTES B. CHANGED NAMES: In Vista, Server 2008 and Windows 7 etc. C. Axioms in this guide D. Commonly Used Command-line Tools E. Bibliography, References and Tools - 2 - © 2004-2010, bcdalai bcdalai's Free Tech. Support Blog: [http://bcdalai.blogspot.com] Chapter – 1 Windows Run Commands [For Windows 2000 / XP / Server 2003 / Vista / Server 2008 / Windows 7. See Appendix-A6] Table-1 SL. APPLICATION COMMAND Ref 001 Accessibility Controls access.cpl 1 002 Accessibility Wizard accwiz 3 003 Add Hardware Wizard hdwwiz.cpl 1 004 Add/Remove Programs appwiz.cpl 2 005 Administrative Tools control admintools 006 Automatic Updates wuaucpl.cpl 1 007 Bluetooth Transfer Wizard fsquirt 008 Calculator calc 009 Certificate Manager certmgr.msc 010 Character Map charmap 011 Clipboard Viewer clipbrd 3 012 Command Prompt cmd 013 Component Services (DCOM/COM+ configuration) dcomcnfg 014 Computer Management compmgmt.msc 015 Control Panel control 016 Date and Time Properties control date/time 017 Date and Time Properties timedate.cpl 018 DDE Shares ddeshare 3 019 Device Manager devmgmt.msc 020 DirectX Diagnostic Tool dxdiag 021 Disk Cleanup Utility (Appendix-A1) cleanmgr 022 Disk Defragment dfrg.msc 1 023 Disk Management diskmgmt.msc 024 Disk Partition Manager diskpart 025 Display Properties control desktop 1 026 Display Properties desk.cpl 1 027 Display Properties (Appearance tab pre-selected) control color 028 Dr. Watson System Troubleshooting Utility (16-bit) drwatson 029 Dr. Watson System Troubleshooting Utility (32-bit) drwtsn32 3 030 Driver Verifier Utility verifier 031 DVD Placeholder Utility (playing DVD in WMP) dvdplay 032 Event Viewer eventvwr 033 Event Viewer eventvwr.msc 034 File Signature Verification Tool sigverif 035 Files and Setting Transfer Wizard migwiz 2 036 Folders Properties control folders 037 Fonts Folder control fonts 038 Fonts Folder fonts 039 Game Controllers joy.cpl 040 Game: Free Cell freecell 3 041 Game: Hearts Card Game mshearts 3 042 Game: Internet Backgammon bckgzm 3 043 Game: Internet Checkers chkrzm 3 044 Game: Internet Hearts hrtzzm 3 045 Game: Internet Reversi rvsezm 3 046 Game: Internet Spades shvlzm 3 047 Game: Minesweeper winmine 3 048 Game: Pinball pinball 3 049 Game: Solitaire sol 3 050 Game: Spider Solitaire spider 3 051 Group Policy Object Editor gpedit.msc 052 Help and Support Center helpctr 3 053 HyperTerminal hypertrm 3 054 Iexpress Wizard (packaging tool) iexpress 055 Indexing Service ciadv.msc - 3 - © 2004-2010, bcdalai bcdalai's Free Tech. Support Blog: [http://bcdalai.blogspot.com] 056 Infrared Monitor if installed) control infrared 057 Internet Connection Wizard icwconn1 3 058 Internet Explorer (IE) iexplore 059 Internet Explorer (InPrivate Mode) (IE8 or later) iexplore –private 060 Internet Explorer (no Add-ons) iexplore –extoff 061 Internet Properties inetcpl.cpl 062 Internet Setup Wizard inetwiz 3 063 Keyboard Properties control keyboard 064 Local Security Settings secpol.msc 065 Local Users and Groups lusrmgr.msc 066 Log Off logoff 067 Mail client (Default) mailto: 068 Mail configurations (Outlook/Microsoft Outlook) control mlcfg32.cpl 069 Microsoft Chat winchat 070 Microsoft Management Console (MMC) mmc 071 Microsoft Media Player (for audio only) mplay32 3 072 Microsoft Movie Maker moviemk 3 073 Microsoft Paint mspaint 074 Microsoft Paint pbrush 075 Microsoft Program Manager progman 3 076 Microsoft Synchronization Tool mobsync 2 077 Mouse Properties control mouse 078 Mouse Properties main.cpl 079 MS-DOS Editor (editing files in DOS mode) edit 080 Network Access Protection (NPA) Client UI napstat 081 Network Connections control netconnections 082 Network Connections ncpa.cpl 083 Network Setup Wizard netsetup.cpl 3 084 Notepad notepad 085 Novell NetWare (if installed) control netware 086 Object Packager packager 3 087 On Screen Keyboard osk 088 Outlook Express msimn 2, 1 089 Password Properties password.cpl 3 090 Performance Monitor perfmon 091 Performance Monitor perfmon.msc 092 Phone and Modem Options control telephony 093 Phone and Modem Options telephon.cpl 094 Phone Dialer dialer 095 Power Configuration powercfg.cpl 096 Printers and Faxes control printers 097 Printers Folder printers 3 098 Private Character Editor eudcedit 099 Regional and Language Options control international 100 Regional and Language Options intl.cpl 2 101 Registry Editor regedit 102 Registry Editor regedt32 103 Remote Access Phonebook rasphone 104 Remote Assistance rcimlby –launchra 2, 1 105 Remote Desktop mstsc 106 Removable Storage ntmsmgr.msc 3 107 Removable Storage Operator Requests ntmsoprq.msc 3 108 Resultant Set of Policy (RSOP) rsop.msc 109 Scanners and Cameras sticpl.cpl 3 110 Scheduled Tasks control schedtasks 111 Security Center wscui.cpl 2, 1 112 Services services.msc 113 Shared Folder Wizard (create a shared folder) shrpubw 114 Shared Folders fsmgmt.msc 115 Shutdown Windows (Appendix-A2) shutdown –s –t 00 116 Sound Recorder sndrec32 3, 1 117 Sounds and Audio mmsys.cpl 118 SQL Client Configuration cliconfg 119 System Configuration Editor sysedit - 4 - © 2004-2010, bcdalai bcdalai's Free Tech. Support Blog: [http://bcdalai.blogspot.com] 120 System Configuration Utility msconfig 121 System File Checker (Purge File Cache) sfc /purgecache 3, 1 122 System File Checker (Return to Default Setting) sfc /revert 3, 1 123 System File Checker (Scan immediately) sfc /scannow 124 System File Checker (Scan On every boot) sfc /scanboot 3, 1 125 System File Checker (Scan Once at next boot) sfc /scanonce 3, 1 126 System File Checker (Set cache size to x in MB) sfc /cachesize=x 3, 1 127 System Information msinfo32 128 System Information winmsd 3 129 System Properties sysdm.cpl 130 Task Manager taskmgr 131 Telnet Client telnet 132 Telnet Server Admin tlntadmn 1 133 User Accounts control userpasswords 134 User Accounts 2 control userpasswords2 135 User Accounts Management nusrmgr.cpl 3 136 Utility