Please be aware of notation below in command outlines. $ represents a command and rests of the lines following that line are output. Powershell is superset of traditional command prompt. Hence, all usual binaries still run on powershell for exxample, takeown.

Win Supported Run Cmds

[ToDo: move this to a separate one.]

desk.cpl
services.msc
sysdm.cpl

Misc

Customized ping command, waits 20 seconds for reply and keep pinging non-stop ping ref,

ping -w 20000 -t myserver.company.com

Enable or disable Linux Subsystem feature,

Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux
Disable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux

Get host name,

HOSTNAME

associating file type for extension .fob,

cmd /c assoc .fob=foobarfile
cmd /c ftype foobarfile=powershell.exe -File `"C:\path\to\your.ps1`" `"%1`"

Find files with hidden attributes,

dir /A:H general-solving\lintcode

Modify files to remove hidden attributes using attrib

attrib -h my-hidden-file.txt

Robust copy robocopy is good for copying large numbeer of files (to handle so many different cases: large files, network interruptions, file names). An example cmd,

robocopy /s /z /v /fp /eta 'D:\Movies' 'H:\' Office.*
robocopy /s /z /v /fp /eta 'D:\TV Series' 'H:\' Fringe*

Above cmds copy all files from first one (source dir) matching the pattern.

Exmple of copy over network,

robocopy /s /z /v /fp /eta '\\ENLIGHTENSOUL\Bangla\3RD Person Singular Number' 'i:\'

xcopy examples (prefer robocopy over this one), some variations below,

xcopy /C /F /H e:\c O:
xcopy /s /C /F /H e:\C++ O:\C++
xcopy /s /C /F /H "e:\FC back up" "o:\FC back up"
xcopy /s /C /F /H "e:\Net Workspace" "o:\Net Workspace"
xcopy /s /C /F /H f:\* Q:\*

Retrieving all cmd history,

doskey /history > copy_command.txt

delete everything inside a directory,

rd /s /q JobDetails_data

mklink To create a symbolic link named MyDocs from the root directory to the \Users\User1\Documents directory,

mklink /d \MyDocs \Users\User1\Documents

Creates a Directory Junction instead using mklink,

$ mklink /j C:\Users\Atique\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Office\15.0\OfficeFileCache H:\OfficeFileCache
Junction created for C:\Users\Atique\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Office\15.0\OfficeFileCache <<===>> H:\OfficeFileCache

Network share commands view curently shared directories,

net share

to delete share (requires admin privilege),

$ net share NewDrama /delete
Movies      D:\Cool Movies
Softs       D:\Sourcecodes\Web\Softs

To share a directory,

net share listshare="D:\Docs"

registry For example usage regsvr32 of check codeproject - Windows Media Player Native Subtitle Plugin

References