Tag Archives: CMD

Installing Telnet with a Quick Command

Posted by dave on October 10, 2012 No comments

Whilst trying to diagnose some connection issues, I tried Telnet, only to discover it wasn’t installed. This little code snippet was a very quick way to get it installed: pkgmgr /iu:”TelnetClient”

Retrieving System Information from the Command Line

Posted by dave on September 7, 2012 No comments

Probably doesnt deserve it’s own post, but anyway: c:\>systeminfo Pretty useful.

Create a windows service from the command line

Posted by dave on July 5, 2010 No comments

This is pretty useful to know: sc create ServiceName binpath= c:\progra~1\folder\file.exe If you get “[SC] Createservice Success” then you’ve got it right You can then go into services.msc and set it to autostart and start it if you like. PS, …

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Configuring disk partitions from the command line

Posted by dave on March 26, 2010 No comments

Yet another command line post. Basically, after configuring the Raid array on my DL380 G5, running Hyper-V I needed to create the data drive to hold all the VHD’s. From the command prompt, typing: C:\>d: Gave the error: The device …

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Listing available drives from the Command Prompt

Posted by dave on March 22, 2010 No comments

This came in handy just now. Run this command from the command line to list the available drives on a machine: c:\>fsutil fsinfo drives Very useful when working on my Hyper-V box. Also note: Show the type of drive: c:\>fsutil …

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Simple Command Line Tricks

Posted by dave on March 17, 2010 No comments

I use cmd.exe quite a bit every day and have never really bothered looking into to making this experience a bit more pleasurable. When I think about it, the window is a bit small, I kinda wish it kept a …

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How to Uninstall a program for the command line

Posted by dave on March 17, 2010 No comments

Today I was trying to remove some software from a Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 box, and obviously it has no nice little Add/Remove Programs GUI to use. It can still be done however. First, call ‘MWIC’ from the command line. …

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