Windows Command Line Goodies

Windows Command Line Goodies

**Ping with varying payload

This works on Mac

Ping -s 6000 ipaddress

This works on windows

ping -i 6000 ipaddress

***See list of computers in your workgroup

Windows:

net view

find out MAC address

Windows and Mac

arp -a

sc command (command prompt)sililar to the services.svc (windows run)

nslookup www.website.com // this will give you the ipaddress

**** mapping drives at the command prompt

net use driveletter: \\server-name\sharename
net use driveletter: /deletenet use /? for options
you can create a batch file to map drives also
in notepad
net use x: /delete # delete mapped drive
net use x: \\servername\share # will map drive
save file with the .bat extension, then you can doubble click on it to map the drive

Changing the color of the command prompt

color help

a bunch of color codes will appear

color followed by the color code: color 02

Create a Wifi Hotspot

netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=allow ssid=HotSpotName key=password

To Start:

netsh wlan start hostednetwork

Pipe output from the command line to the clipboard

ipconfig | clip

Get a list of installed programs

wmic product get name

Uninstall a program from the command line

wmic product where "name like iTunes" call uninstall /noninteractive

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