BONUS: Here Are A Few Keyboard Shortcuts For Windows As Well:
(Scroll Down For DOS Commands)
| Keyboard Shortcut(s) Combination: | WHAT THE Shortcut(s) DOES: |
|---|---|
| Select All | CTRL + A |
| Copy | CTRL + C |
| CTRL + P | |
| Paste | CTRL + V |
| Cut | CTRL + X |
| Locks the screen | Windows + L |
| Open settings panel | Windows + I |
| Open the system panel | Windows + Pause / Break |
| Turns on/Off the wireless network adapter on some devices | FN + Print Screen / System Request |
| Opens the Windows “Run” box and then runs Command Prompt (CMD) (As User) | Windows + R and then type “CMD” Run |
| Runs the Command Prompt in (Windows 10) (As User) | Windows + X and then press “C” |
| Runs the Command Prompt (New in Windows 10) (As Administrator) | Windows + X and then press “A” |
| Allows you to toggle between windowed and fullscreen | Alt + Enter |
| Close the Command Prompt | Alt + F4 |
| Erase Your Internet Explorer History | CTRL + SHIFT + DEL |
| Multi Functional (Context Dependent) | CTRL + ALT + DEL |
You Can Copy And Past The Commands Straight Into Command Prompt (CMD):
| What The Command(s) Does: | Command(s) To Be Typed In To CMD As Administrator: |
|---|---|
| Displays drives / services using the network. | net use |
| Displays local user accounts on the device. | net user (Or) net users |
| Add a new user account with a password. | net user ACCOUNT_NAME_GOES_HERE "PASSWORD_GOES_HERE" /add |
| Add a new user account without a password. | net user ACCOUNT_NAME_GOES_HERE "" /add |
| Remove user account with or without a password. | net user USERNAME_GOES_HEAR /del |
| Raise use account to admin level. | net localgroup administrators owner /add |
| Remove a device from the domain (Unjoin a device from the domain). | netdom remove PC_NAME_GOES_HERE /DOMAIN:DOMAINNAME |
| Set the max password age | net accounts /MaxPWAge:unlimited |
| Set the password expire parameter | net user ACCOUNT_NAME_GOES_HERE /expires:never |
| Run the command in CMD or PowerShell to delete mapped network drives. | net use * /delete |
| Run the command in CMD or PowerShell as admin run Device Manager as admin. | devmgmt.msc |
| Displays the internet configuration of your current TCP/IP network configuration values. | ipconfig |
| Displays the internet configuration of all current TCP/IP network configuration values. | ipconfig -all |
| Flushes the Domain Name System (DNS) resolver cache from the internet configuration. | ipconfig /flushdns |
| Allows you to perform an echo test to an IP address or domain name. | ping IP_ADDRESS_OR_DOMAIN_NAME_GOSE_HERE |
| Allows you to perform a continuous echo test to an IP address or domain name. | ping IP_ADDRESS_OR_DOMAIN_NAME_GOSE_HERE -t |
| Allows you to trace IP address or domain name via hops across the network back to the source. | tracert IP_ADDRESS_OR_DOMAIN_NAME_GOSE_HERE |
| Show MAC Address. | arp -a |
| Deletes one or more files. If you use erase to delete a file from your disk, you can't retrieve it. | erase C:\NAME_OF_FILE_GOES_HERE.TRHEE_LATTER_FILE_EXTENSION |
| Allows you to change the directory by typing the directory path after the cd. | cd |
| Allows you to change the directory by typing the directory path after the cd on Windows 10. | cd /d |
| Allows you to go straight to the root directory without typing the file path. | cd.. |
| Allows you to make a directory. | mkdir |
| Allows you to remove a directory. | rmdir |
| Clears the screen of the current text. | cls |
| Updates the security policy’s of the local device and any Group Policy Object’s (GPO’s). | gpupdate |
| Force the security policy’s of the local device and any Group Policy Object’s (GPO’s) to update. | gpupdate /force |
| Shows the Resultant Set of Policy (RsoP) information for a user and computer, by creating a report that displays what group policies objects are applied to a user and computer. | gpresult /r |
| To verify that BitLocker is enabled on a drive, run CMD as Administrator and then type. | fvenotify.exe |
| Change Bitlocker PIN for drive C: (The simply way) (As admin). | changepin |
| Change Bitlocker password for drive C: (More involved way) (As admin). | manage-bde -changepassword C: |
| Displays the current time and allows you to change the current system time. | time |
| Displays the current date and allows you to change the current system data. | date |
| Run the command in CMD or PowerShell as admin scans the integrity of all protected system files and repairs files with problems when possible. | sfc /SCANNOW |
| Run the command in CMD or PowerShell as admin Scans integrity of all protected system files. No repair operation is performed. | sfc /VERIFYFILE |
| Run the command in CMD or PowerShell as admin Scans integrity of the referenced file, repairs file if problems are identified. Specify full path | sfc /SCANFILE |
| Run the command in CMD or PowerShell as admin Verifies the integrity of the file with full path. No repair operation is performed. | sfc /VERIFYONLY |
| Run the command in CMD or PowerShell as admin For offline repair, specify the location of the offline boot directory. | /OFFBOOTDIR |
| Run the command in CMD or PowerShell as admin For offline repair, specify the location of the offline windows directory. | /OFFWINDIR |
| Run the command in CMD or PowerShell as admin For offline repair, optionally enable logging by specifying a log file path. | /OFFLOGFILE |
| Will write a Windows Vista and Windows 7 compatible MBR to the system partition. | bootrec /FixMbr |
| Will write a new boot sector to the system partition. If your system is Windows 7, FixBoot will write a Windows 7-compatible boot sector and so on. | bootrec /FixBoot |
| Will scan the hard drives for any installations. ScanOs will also print installations that are not currently in the BCD. | bootrec /ScanOs |
| Will scan for installations on your hard drive and allows you to select which to add to the BCD. | bootrec /RebuildBcd |
| Remote Access Client Side Command Line Dial UI, creates new records and folders in the Windows registry. | rasdial.exe "ACME Device AlwaysOn VPM / DISCONNECT" |
| Connect to a VPN in Windows 10 using rasdial, To specify your user name and password credentials, execute the following command. | rasdial "VPN_NAME_GOES_HERE" "YOUR_USERNAME" "YOUR_PASSWORD" |
