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The command prompt allows you to run commands from the run line versus the Windows graphical user interface. You can run applications from the command line. Many tasks are run…

Instead of going to Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services, you can simply type in services.msc in the command line to get to the Services utility. The Services utility…

MMC stands for Microsoft Management Console. MMC is a user interface for Windows administration tools that is user customizable. Microsoft Management Console allows you to build your own management framework…

Mstsc stands for Microsoft Terminal Services Client. It’s a Remote Desktop connection that allows you to see and interact with a remote computer. Start the Remote Desktop Connection by typing…

The Notepad is used to view and edit text files. It’s a text editor that’s built into almost any version of Windows. You can start notepad by typing in notepad…

Windows 7/8/8.1 have Windows Explorer for file management. In Windows 10, this was renamed to File Explorer. The Windows/File Explorer lets you view all of the files and folders that…

When you first get to a foreign computer for troubleshooting, you may not know anything about it. Therefore you can access the Windows System Information to quickly see what Windows…

Dxdiag stands for DirectX Diagnostic Tool. It’s used to manage DirectX installation. DirectX is an application programming interface (API) that developers use to create applications dealing with multimedia or graphics…

Files saved on a traditional (non SSD) hard drive are split into multiple fragments and are stored in different places on the hard drive. To read the file, the hard…

With System Restore, you can roll back your system configuration to an earlier point in time (a restore point). Windows automatically creates restore points whenever something happens with the operating…