List of all Windows administration command line tools [closed]

Solution 1:

Microsoft has mostly eliminated Command Prompt information from the Help files distributed with Windows 7 and Vista, However, you can get the command-line reference list from the help documents of Windows Server family (or Windows XP).

Here's some online command-line reference lists from Microsoft technet sites.

• Windows Server 2008 Command-line reference A-Z

  Applies To: Windows 7, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista

• Windows Server 2003 Command-line reference A-Z

  Applies To: Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2003 with SP1, Windows Server 2003 with SP2

• Windows XP Command-line reference A-Z

Solution 2:

Here's a couple. I'm assuming you want commands other than simple file management commands like dir, attrib, etc. Others can add. There's more commands often used on the server versions of Windows and the "Resource Kit Tools." Note that PowerShell is much more comprehensive in this regard.

Furthermore, given the way the Windows component architecture works, it's possible to do strange things like call functions in .DLL's to do things. A complete list of this is probably not possible unless you are terribly familiar with Windows internals.

ipconfig - display network interface IP address information

nslookup - perform DNS lookup

nbtstat - NetBIOS over TCP/IP utility

sc - commandl ine interface to control and configure services

reg - perform registry operations

netsh - perform configuration changes on network interfaces

route - display or change routing table (There's also an ipxroute command which works if you have NWLink installed)

schtasks - command line interface to Task Scheduler.

wevtutil - command line interface to Event Viewer.

getmac - displays MAC addresses of all interfaces.

devcon - command line interface to Plug and Play subsystem - think of it as a command line Device Manager.

fsutil - filesystem-related operations

chkdsk - check filesystem on a volume

ftp - command line ftp client

format - format a volume

label - change volume label

net - performs a wide variety of "server" type operations including drve mapping, service control, user management, etc.

powercfg - configure power related settings.

regsvr32 - register/unregister DLLs