Thursday, April 13, 2006

Interesting: Obscure Command Line Tools

I was listening to episode 12 of Hanselminutes today and was introduced to / reminded of several very helpful and cool Microsoft Windows command line tools. A good list of little known commands is here at NeworkClue.

I especially liked 'driverquery' which gives information and properties about all drivers loaded on a system. And also SFC or System File Checker which is a great tool for Windows that works in conjunction with a utility called Windows File Protection that keeps the system file cache. If you have restore points setup you are probably better off using them, however, as a last resort SFC will restore any system files that have been replaced or overwritten by incorrect versions or malicious software.

Scott Hanselman does a good job of describing several other little known tools such as netsh and wmic. Worth listening to if you spend time at the command line, or would like to learn how powerful the command line really is.

Oh, almost forgot, pushd and popd r0x!

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