Please be aware of notation below in command outlines. $ represents a command and rests of the lines following that line are output. The tradition is to utilize the "> " prompt for Windows Command Shell, however, I come from a Unix background and I defy that.
Primary ref, MSFT Win Server - Intro to Windows Command Line Shell
Control Panel Commands
These can be run from Run Command Dialog Box as well,
desk.cpl
services.msc
sysdm.cpl
Few more,
Name Description
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appwiz.cpl Shell Application Manager
bthprops.cpl Bluetooth Control Panel Applet
desk.cpl Desktop Settings Control Panel
Firewall.cpl Windows Defender Firewall Control Panel DLL Launching Stub
hdwwiz.cpl Add Hardware Control Panel Applet
inetcpl.cpl Internet Control Panel
intl.cpl Control Panel DLL
irprops.cpl Infrared Control Panel Applet
joy.cpl Game Controllers Control Panel Applet
main.cpl Mouse and Keyboard Control Panel Applets
mmsys.cpl Audio Control Panel
ncpa.cpl Network Connections Control-Panel Stub
powercfg.cpl Power Management Configuration Control Panel Applet
sapi.cpl Speech UX Control Panel
sysdm.cpl System Applet for the Control Panel
TabletPC.cpl Tablet PC Control Panel
telephon.cpl Telephony Control Panel
timedate.cpl Time Date Control Panel Applet
wscui.cpl Security and Maintenance
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 quite useful on recovery mode / troubleshooting on UEFI recovery image,
robocopy /zb /s SOURCE DEST
ref, MSFT Learn - Windows Server Commands
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
xcopy cmd examples,
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:\*
I prefer robocopy over xcopy.
File System Management
Removing directory: 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
dos features
Retrieving all cmd history,
doskey /history > copy_command.txt
References
Powershell is supersedes of command shell. Hence, all commands for this also run on powershell with some minor variations.