Free Guide to Installation, Fixing and Troubleshooting

- Open the command prompt as an administrator; type the command below and press enter key C:\WINDOWS\system32>diskpart DISKPART> list volume - when you type “list volume” and press enter you will get the result as below: Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info ---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- -------- * Volume 0 New Volume NTFS Partition 246 GB Healthy Volume 1 F New Volume NTFS Partition 219 GB Healthy Volume 2 NTFS Partition 100 MB Healthy System Volume 3 C NTFS Partition 48 GB Healthy Boot Volume 4 D Work Folder NTFS Partition 100 GB Healthy Volume 5 G Seagate Exp NTFS Partition 465 GB Healthy Note: Let’s say I want to unhide hard disk drive E:, one that I hided above; its “Volume 0”; you can see * (asterisk) in volume 0; it is hidden; follow the command below DISKP

- Open the command prompt as an administrator; type the command below and press enter key C:\WINDOWS\system32>diskpart DISKPART> list volume - when you type “list volume” and press enter you will get the result as below: Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info ---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- -------- Volume 0 E New Volume NTFS Partition 246 GB Healthy Volume 1 F New Volume NTFS Partition 219 GB Healthy Volume 2 NTFS Partition 100 MB Healthy System Volume 3 C NTFS Partition 48 GB Healthy Boot Volume 4 D Work Folder NTFS Partition 100 GB Healthy Volume 5 G Seagate Exp NTFS Partition 465 GB Healthy Note: Let’s say I want to hide hard disk drive E:, you can see on left of E:, its “Volume 0”; you can select any volume you want to hide. DISKPART> select volume 0 Volume 0 is t

- If you are in diskpart terminal DISKPART> - In order to list volume; type command bellow and press enter key list volume Example: DISKPART> list volume

- If you are in diskpart terminal; terminal look like below: DISKPART> - In order to get help; type command bellow and press enter key help Example: DISKPART>help

- Each diskpart terminal commands has different function ACTIVE Mark the selected partition as active. ADD Add a mirror to a simple volume. ASSIGN Assign a drive letter or mount point to the selected volume. ATTRIBUTES Manipulate volume or disk attributes. ATTACH Attaches a virtual disk file. AUTOMOUNT Enable and disable automatic mounting of basic volumes. BREAK Break a mirror set. CLEAN Clear the configuration information, or all information, off the disk. COMPACT Attempts to reduce the physical size of the file. CONVERT Convert between different disk formats. CREATE Create a volume, partition or virtual disk. DELETE Delete an object. DETAIL Provide details about an object. DETACH Detaches a virtual disk file. EXIT Exit DiskPart. EXTEND Extend a volume. EXPAND Expands the maximum size available on a virtual disk. FILESYSTEMS Display current and supported file systems on the

- If you are in diskpart terminal; terminal look like below: DISKPART> - In order to get back to c: terminal; press “CTRL+C” together in keyboard Example: DISKPART> -After pressing “CTRL+C” together in keyboard C:\WINDOWS\system32>

- Open the command prompt as an administrator; type the command below and press enter key diskpart Example: C:\WINDOWS\system32>diskpart DISKPART>

- If you are in ftp prompt; your terminal look like below: ftp> - In order to get help; type any one of the commands bellow in ftp terminal and press enter key help or ? Example: ftp>help or ftp>?

- Each commands has different function; before you use these commands; make sure that you are connected to ftp (file transfer protocol). ! delete literal prompt send ? debug ls put status append dir mdelete pwd trace ascii disconnect mdir quit type bell get mget quote user binary glob mkdir recv verbose bye hash mls remotehelp cd help mput rename close lcd open rmdir

- If you are in ftp prompt; your terminal look like below: ftp> - In order to get back to c: terminal; type the command below and press enter key ! Or bye Example: ftp> ! C:\WINDOWS\system32>

- Open the command prompt as an administrator; type the command below and press enter key ftp Example: C:\WINDOWS\system32>ftp ftp>

- Open the command prompt as an administrator; type the command below and press enter key; command below will give you list of ping commands for testing network connection C:\WINDOWS\system32>ping Note: when you type ping and enter key; you will get the list of options that you can use with ping commands, see the option below: Usage: ping [-t] [-a] [-n count] [-l size] [-f] [-i TTL] [-v TOS] [-r count] [-s count] [[-j host-list] | [-k host-list]] [-w timeout] [-R] [-S srcaddr] [-c compartment] [-p] [-4] [-6] target_name Note: Everything in after ping command; inside bracket are the options; every options has different function; you can choose according to your needs. - You can see the list of option and their function below: -t Ping the specified host until stopped. To see statistics and continue - type Control + Break in keyboard To stop - type Control + C in keyboard -a Resolve addresses to hostnames -n coun

- Open the command prompt as an administrator; type the command below and press enter key; these command below will give you list of net commands to manage network resource net help or net - You will get the list of commands below: NET ACCOUNTS NET HELPMSG NET STATISTICS NET COMPUTER NET LOCALGROUP NET STOP NET CONFIG NET PAUSE NET TIME NET CONTINUE NET SESSION NET USE NET FILE NET SHARE NET USER NET GROUP NET START NET VIEW NET HELP NET HELP NAMES explains different types of names in NET HELP syntax lines. NET HELP SERVICES lists some of the services you can start. NET HELP SYNTAX explains how to read NET HELP syntax lines. NET HELP command | MORE displays Help one screen at a time. - For Further help with respect to each specific commands above; open the commands prompt as an administrator; and type the commands as below: NET command /HELP For Example: C:\WINDOWS\system32>net accounts /help - Type all the above commands as example shown a

- Open the command prompt as an administrator; type the command below and press enter key NET START BROWSER NET START DHCP CLIENT NET START EVENTLOG NET START FILE REPLICATION NET START NETLOGON NET START PLUG AND PLAY NET START REMOTE ACCESS CONNECTION MANAGER NET START ROUTING AND REMOTE ACCESS NET START RPCSS NET START SCHEDULE NET START SERVER NET START SPOOLER NET START TCP/IP NETBIOS HELPER NET START UPS NET START WORKSTATION When typed at the command prompt, service names of two words or more must be enclosed in quotation marks. For example, NET START "DHCP Client" starts the DHCP Client service.

- Open the command prompt as an administrator; type the command below and press enter key net start

- Open the command prompt as an administrator; type the command below and press enter key msiexec

- Open the command prompt as an administrator; use the command below as shown in example and press enter key Makecab Example: H:\>makecab Untitled.png tew.cab /l h: H:\> is the drive; where files are located; if files you want to compress located in different drive or folder; change the drive first “makecab” is the commands; “Untitled.png” is the file name I want to compress “tew.cab” is the name of compressed file “/lh:” /l and h: is the drive or location where I want to save compressed or .cab files

- Open the command prompt as an administrator; type the command below and press enter key logoff

- Open the command prompt as an administrator; type the command below and press enter key label Note: if the command prompt terminal look like C:\WINDOWS\system32>;you can change the label of c drive. If you want to change label of some other drive; change drive first in cmd terminal; then after type the commands above. Type drive name and: then after; press enter key to change drive For Example: C:\WINDOWS\system32> h: H:\>label

- Open the command prompt as an administrator; type the command below and press enter key hostname

- Open the command prompt as an administrator; type the command below and press enter key getmac

- Open the command prompt as an administrator; type the command below and press enter key ftype Note: if the command prompt terminal look like C:\WINDOWS\system32>; it will show you the file list and extension of c drive. If you want extension of files in some other drive; change drive first in cmd terminal and then after type the commands above. Type drive name and: then after; press enter key to change drive. For Example: C:\WINDOWS\system32>h: H:\>ftype

- Open the command prompt as an administrator; type the command below and press enter key Explorer

- Open the command prompt as an administrator; as soon as you open the command prompt as an administrator; you will see terminal as below: C:\WINDOWS\system32> This means echo is on; if you do not like displaying this message in terminal; type the following command and press enter key. echo off now you will see complete black screen; you can type several command and operate it. - If you want to see terminal message like C:\WINDOWS\system32>; type the following command press enter key in black screen. echo on

- Open the command prompt as an administrator; type the command below and press enter key H:\>del new del is a command and new is folder inside h drive I want to delete; it will ask you for permission as Y or N; if you want to delete; type Y and press enter key H:\new\*, Are you sure (Y/N)? H:\new\*, Are you sure (Y/N)? y

- Open the command prompt as an administrator; type the following commands and press enter key convert h: /fs:ntfs To convert "h:" drive to NTFS; once drive is already NTFS; you cannot convert it to FAT file system

color - See the procedure and example below; how to use color command - Before you proceed open command prompt (CMD) as an Administrator COLOR [attr] attr - Specifies color attribute of console output - Color attributes are specified by TWO hex digits; the first corresponds to the background; the second the foreground. Each digit can be any of the following values: 0 = Black 1 = Blue 2 = Green 3 = Aqua 4 = Red 5 = Purple 6 = Yellow 7 = White 8 = Gray 9 = Light Blue A = Light Green B = Light Aqua C = Light Red D = Light Purple E = Light Yellow F = Bright White - If no argument is given, for example: "color" this command restores the color to what it was when CMD.EXE started. - The COLOR command sets ERRORLEVEL to 1 if an attempt is made to executethe COLOR command with a foreground and background color that are thesame. Example: "COLOR ff" results no change in foreground or back ground color - Correct way to use; see example bellow E

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- Open command prompt as an administrator, Type the following commands and press enter bcdedit

- Open command prompt as an administrator, Type the following commands and press enter explorer

- Open command prompt as an administrator, Type the following commands and press enter utilman

- Open command prompt as an administrator, Type the following commands and press enter telnet Note: Type ?/help to get further help with several Telnet commands

- Open command prompt as an administrator, Type the following commands and press enter taskmgr

- Open command prompt as an administrator, Type the following commands and press enter sysdm.cpl

- Open command prompt as an administrator, Type the following commands and press enter msinfo32

- Open command prompt as an administrator, Type the following commands and press enter msconfig

- Open command prompt as an administrator, Type the following commands and press enter cliconfg

- Open command prompt as an administrator, Type the following commands and press enter mmsys.cpl

- Open command prompt as an administrator, Type the following commands and press enter shutdown

- Open command prompt as an administrator, Type the following commands and press enter fsmgmt.msc

- Open command prompt as an administrator, Type the following commands and press enter services.msc

- Open command prompt as an administrator, Type the following commands and press enter wscui.cpl

- Open command prompt as an administrator, Type the following commands and press enter control schedtasks

- Open command prompt as an administrator, Type the following commands and press enter rsop.msc

- Open command prompt as an administrator, Type the following commands and press enter mstsc

- Open command prompt as an administrator, Type the following commands and press enter rasphone

- Open command prompt as an administrator, Type the following commands and press enter regedit

- Open command prompt as an administrator, Type the following commands and press enter intl.cpl

- Open command prompt as an administrator, Type the following commands and press enter control printers

- Open command prompt as an administrator, Type the following commands and press enter powercfg.cpl

- Open command prompt as an administrator, Type the following commands and press enter dialer

- Open command prompt as an administrator, Type the following commands and press enter telephon.cpl

- Open command prompt as an administrator, Type the following commands and press enter perfmon.msc or perfmon

- Open command prompt as an administrator, Type the following commands and press enter osk

- Open command prompt as an administrator, Type the following commands and press enter notepad

- Open command prompt as an administrator, Type the following commands and press enter control netconnections or ncpa.cpl

- Open command prompt as an administrator, Type the following commands and press enter control mouse or main.cpl

- Open command prompt as an administrator, Type the following commands and press enter mobsync

- Open command prompt as an administrator, Type the following commands and press enter mspaint

- Open command prompt as an administrator, Type the following commands and press enter logoff

- Open command prompt as an administrator, Type the following commands and press enter mrt

- Open command prompt as an administrator, Type the following commands and press enter lusrmgr.msc

- Open command prompt as an administrator, Type the following commands and press enter secpol.msc

- Open command prompt as an administrator, Type the following commands and press enter control keyboard

- Open command prompt as an administrator, Type the following commands and press enter inetcpl.cpl

- Open command prompt as an administrator, Type the following commands and press enter iexpress

- Open command prompt as an administrator, Type the following commands and press enter gpedit.msc

- Open command prompt as an administrator, Type the following commands and press enter control fonts

- Open command prompt as an administrator, Type the following commands and press enter control folders

- Open command prompt as an administrator, Type the following commands and press enter sigverif

- Open command prompt as an administrator, Type the following commands and press enter eventvwr.msc

- Open command prompt as an administrator, Type the following commands and press enter verifier

- Open command prompt as an administrator, Type the following commands and press enter desk.cpl

- Open command prompt as an administrator, Type the following commands and press enter. control desktop

- Open command prompt as an administrator, Type the following commands and press enter. diskpart Note: if you want to get out of Diskpart, Type Exit and press Enter.

- Open command prompt as an administrator, Type the following commands and press enter. diskmgmt.msc

- Open command prompt as an administrator, Type the following commands and press enter. cleanmgr

- Open command prompt as an administrator, Type the following commands and press enter. dxdiag

- Open command prompt as an administrator, Type the following commands and press enter. devmgmt.msc

- Open command prompt as an administrator, Type the following commands and press enter. timedate.cpl

- Open command prompt as an administrator, Type the following commands and press enter. control

- Open command prompt as an administrator, Type the following commands and press enter. compmgmt.msc

- Open command prompt as an administrator, Type the following commands and press enter. dcomcnfg

- Open command prompt as an administrator, Type the following commands and press enter. chkdsk

- Open command prompt as an administrator, Type the following commands and press enter. charmap

- Open command prompt as an administrator, Type the following commands and press enter. certmgr.msc

- Open command prompt as an administrator, Type the following commands and press enter. calc

- Open command prompt as an administrator, Type the following commands and press enter fsquirt

- Open command prompt as an administrator, Type the following commands and press enter. appwiz.cpl

- Open command prompt as an administrator, Type the following commands and press enter. hdwwiz.cpl

- Open command prompt as an administrator, Type the following commands and press enter. control admintools

How to use the commands listed below; in command prompt? -At first you have to type the commands in Command Prompt Terminal; then after press an Enter key in keyboard Note: Most of the commands work when you open cmd as a User; some time if any commands do not work: try to open cmd as an Administrator and try those commands. -Bellow is the list of command and their functions below each command help For more information on a specific command, type HELP command-name ASSOC Displays or modifies file extension associations. ATTRIB Displays or changes file attributes. BREAK Sets or clears extended CTRL+C checking. BCDEDIT Sets properties in boot database to control boot loading. CACLS Displays or modifies access control lists (ACLs) of files. CALL Calls one batch program from another. CD Displays the name of or changes the current directory. CHCP Displays or sets the active code page number. CHDIR Displays the name of or changes the current directory. CHK

- use the following command in order to encrypt and decrypt files and folder using cmd. - To encrypt type the command bellow and press enter. cipher /E - To decrypt type the command bellow and press enter. cipher /D Note: before you start, you can change directory in command prompt using cd command. If command prompt is like c:\>, then you can get inside folder where you want to use above commands, so type cd users to get inside user folder c:\users> and so on, type cd.. To get one step back in command prompt, let's say you are in c:\users>, if you type cd..you will get back to c:\> and so on - You can also use /S, /I or /F after /E or /D above. /S is for encrypting and decrypting all the folder, sub folders and files inside it selectively. /I is for encrypting and decrypting even if any kinds of error occurs. /F is for Force encryption and decryption.

- Open the command prompt as an administrator and Type the following command and press enter key mspaint.exe Note: Type the proper executable program as shown above as an example for paint; every program has program_ name.exe, check in your computer in c drive, you can search for file with .exe extension in search bar when you open c drive.

- Type the following command and press enter key - To delete files del fat.txt - To delete folder RD mas Note: mas is a folder name Note: some time files and folders are hidden so if necessary try adding \h after command or at the end. - If you want to delete all the files with particular extension, see bellow, you can change extension like .doc, .txt and many more. del *.doc - If you want to delete all the files that begin with word test, check bellow, you can use word of your own, you want to delete. deltest*.* - If you want to delete all the files from selected directory del *.* Note: before you start, you can change directory in command prompt using cd command. If command prompt is like c:\>, then you can get inside folder where you want to use above commands, so type cd users to get inside user folder c:\users> and so on, type cd.. To get one step back in command prompt, let's say you are in c:\users>, if you type cd..you will get back to c:\> an

- Type the following command and press enter key - copy the file from 1 folder to another folder in same drive copy Original_location\filename.extension Newlocation\filename.extension copy D:\cat\help.txt D:\sat\help.txt Note: copy is command to copy, D:\cat\help.txt is original location of file in computer (inside d drive, inside cat folder, file name help.txt), D:\sat\help.txt is new location of file after copy (inside d drive, inside sat folder, file name help.txt). - Even you can copy same file in same directory by changing file name or extension, see example bellow: copy D:\show.txt D:\show.doc - Let's say you have many folders and files inside 1 folder and you want to copy from 1 location to another location. Follow the command bellow and press enter. xcopy /s /i D:\matE:\mat Note: xcopy is command to copy, /s is to copy all the files and folder, /i will create a new folder if the destination folder doesn't exist and will copy all the files, D:\mat is the origi

- Type the following command and press enter key ren old_folder_name new_folder_name ren music songs - For renaming files ren oldfilename.extension newfilename.extension ren pic.jpg nic.jpg - Music is old name for folder and songs new name for folder. Note: Make sure you change the directory in command prompt to the location of your folder before you type commands to change folder name.

- Type the following command and press enter key C:\> cd users - When you type cd users, you will get inside user directory, it look like c:\users>, follow the same steps to change and get inside different directory, you can type cd.. to get back, i.e. out of 1 directory.

- Type the following commands mkdir New Folder Note: New Folder is the name of folder, you can choose and name. If you see C:\> then folder will be created in c drive. If you see D:\> then folder will be created in d drive. You can change directory in command prompt, where ever you would like to create folder then after type commands to create folder. or mkdir d:\other - mkdir is make folder command, d:\ location where you would like to create folder, other is your folder name. you can follow the same procedure to create folder in any directory.

- let's say I have 2 text file help.txt and show.txt in d drive, I want to compare. - Open cmd as an administrator and type the following command: - At first type d: and press enter in order to get inside d drive, after then inside command prompt it should look like D:\> - Now type the command bellow to compare fc help.txt show.txt

- Suppose I have one folder named apple in d drive, I want to hide - Open cmd as an administrator and type the following command: - At first type d: and press enter in order to get inside d drive, after then inside command prompt it should look like D:\> - Now type the command bellow to hide apple folder Attrib +h +s +r apple - Type the command bellow to see apple folder Attrib -h -s -r apple

- Open cmd as an administrator and type the following command: ipconfig

- Open cmd as an administrator and type the following command: assoc

- Open cmd as an administrator and type the following commands nslookup facebook.com nslookup google.com

- Type the following command. help>d:\help.txt Note: It will copy all the help commands and save it in d drive d:\ as help.txt (you can change drive and file name) -Example 2 xcopy /? >c:\file.txt Note: I have changed the command, drive and file name in above command, you can follow the same procedure to do for other different commands. The commands above will copy all the xcopy /? directory files to file.txt and save it in c:\ drive. - For windows 10 even you can select, copy and paste using key board shortcut like Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V

- suppose you are in c drive, so you will see command prompt as c:\>, Now you type cd and then after you want to select some folder from c drive, so you can press TAB key frequently to choose any folder you want to get inside in c drive like c:\>cd user (user is 1 folder inside c drive, press TAB continuously to choose another folder)

- Let's say you know half command and you forgot half, in order to get help, type your command in a format bellow: net/? dir/? Note: you just have to add /? after command for help

- Type the following command sfc /scannow

- open the command prompt as an administrator, type the command bellow and press enter, finally restart your computer. netsh int ip reset resetlog.txt -if the problem is not solved, open the command prompt as an administrator again, type the command bellow in order and press enter after typing each commands, finally restart your computer. ipconfig /release ipconfig /all ipconfig /flushdns ipconfig /renew netsh int ip set dns netsh winsock reset netsh int ip reset resetlog.txt

Ctrl+C (or Ctrl+Insert): You can Copy selected text. Ctrl+V (or Shift+Insert): You can Paste selected text. Ctrl+Backspace: if you typed 10 words in line in cmd, you can delete word by word with Ctrl+Backspace F1: You can paste the last used command character by character. F3: You can paste the recently used command. F6 or Ctrl+Z: if you have to type ^Z in command prompt you can press F6 F7: when you press F7, you will see the list of all executed command, you can select with up and down arrow key and execute again. F8: You can pastelastly used commands, keep on pressing and you will see 1 by 1, it will paste all last used commands. Shift+Left Arrow: Select text character by character in backward direction. Shift+Right Arrow: Select text character by character in forward direction. Shift+UP Arrow:Select text line by line in upward direction. Shift+Down Arrow:Select text line by line in downward direction. UP Arrow Key: To paste last used command in forward direction. D

- Type the following command NETSH WLAN show hostednetwork setting=security

- Type the following command NETSH WLAN show hostednetwork

- Type the following command NETSH WLAN set hostednetwork key=Your_New_Key

- Type the following command - NETSH WLAN set hostednetwork ssid=Your_New_SSID

Step 1 -You have to enable following features: Allow other network users to connect through this computer’s internet connection - To Enable in Windows 10, press Windows key+X - Choose Network Connections - Choose Ethernet or WiFi - Click on change Adapter option on Right hand side - You will see your new adaptor with hotspot name - Right click on it and choose properties - Check the box to enable Allow other network users to connect through this computer's Internet connection Step 2 - Open the command prompt as an administrator. - Type the following command, type your own hotspot name for ssid and your own password for key netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=allow ssid=Your_hotspot_name key=your_password -In order to start hotspot, type following command netsh wlan start hostednetwork - In order to stop hotspot, type following command netsh wlan stop hostednetwork

- Right click on Top Title section of command prompt. - choose properties from the drop down menu. - There you can change the Size, Font, Layout, color of the command prompt

- Type the following command driverquery

 how to Run multiple commands at a time - You need to type && in between each command, see example below: explorer && ipconfig && date && time

how to check the windows IP Configuration - Type the following command ipconfig

how to check the list of all commands that you used in command prompt - Type the following command doskey /history

1. Create folder with name image in C: drives 2. Open command prompt as an Administrator 3. Type the command bellow and press enter recimg -CreateImage c:\image

1. You can create undeletable and unrenamable folder with these name: aux,con, lpt1, lpt2, lpt3, lpt4, lpt5, lpt6, lpt7, lpt8 and lpt9 2. Open the command prompt. 3. You cannot create in C: drive so you can choose other hard disk drive like D:, E: 4. Type D: and press enter 5. Type md aux\ and press enter 6. Type rd aux\ and press enter to delete folder if you ever wish to delete, you cannot delete normally by clicking on delete.

1. Open Run, Shortcut key (windows key+R) 2. Type appwiz.cpl to open Add/Remove program 3. Click on Turn windows features on and off 4. Enable Telnet Client and TFTP Client 5. Open Command prompt as an Administrator 6. Type telnet and press enter 7. Type o and press enter 8. Type towel.blinkenlights.nl

1. Visit the link Listed below: https://www.site24x7.com/check-website-availability.html https://www.iplocation.net/ 2. Type the website URL for which you want to find IP Address, Location, DNS

1. Open the command prompt 2. Type cd.. To remove directory or get back

1. Insert your USB flash drive in to your computer. 2. Open the Command Prompt as an administrator. 3. Type diskpart on Command Prompt, press Enter Key and wait for few seconds. 4. Type list disk and press Enter. Note: You will see list of hard disk and flash drive connected to your computer, you need to select flash drive from list, and best way to recognize flash drive is to check the capacity of disk shown in list, one that match your flash drive capacity, select that one. 5. Type select disk 1 (Make sure your disk 1 is flash drive) and press Enter. 6. Type clean and press Enter to wipe out everything. 7. Type create partition primary and press Enter. 8. Type select partition 1 and press Enter. 9. Type format fs=ntfs quick and press Enter. Note: If your server platform supports Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI), you should format the USB flash drive as FAT32 rather than as NTFS. To format the partition as FAT32, Type format fs=fat32 quick, and then press ENTER.