Disk Operating System or DOS is an old command line based operating system which is developed by Microsoft. DOS operating system controls the hardware and peripheral devices of the computer and allows the applications and programs to run properly. DOS vs MS-DOS vs PC-DOS vs DR-DOS vs FreeDOS As we can see there are a lot of DOS operating systems which may be very confusing for most of us. Actually,...
File Explorer is one of the most used tool or application on Windows operating systems. File Explorer can be used to open file, directory, edit file, copy, paste etc. In this tutorial, we will learn how to open file explorer in different ways in different Windows operating systems like Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2016. Open File Explorer Keyboard Shortcut We...
Java is a programming language which is very popular amongst developers. In order to run Java applications Java Runtime Environment a.k.a. JRE should be installed. As new features come or security bugs fixed JRE is updated regularly. Java or JRE can be updated in different ways where we will look at these ways in this tutorial. Install Java (JRE) We will start with the installation of Java or JRE. First,...
Windows Device Manager is used to list hardware and software devices in the current system. Device Manager also used to check drivers, firmware and configuration of the devices. In this tutorial, we will learn how to open and list hardware information with Device Manager on Windows XP, Windows ME, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2016, Windows...
DOC or DOCX are documenting format developed by Microsoft. DOC and DOCX formats are mainly used in Microsoft Office Word application. DOCX is the newer and enhanced version of the DOC format. DOC and DOCX documents contain text, images, shapes, styles, graphics, animations, videos and page formatting. After Microsoft Word 2003 DOC format became open where before that it was proprietary format. After Microsoft Word 2007 the default format and...
nslookup is a very powerful tool used to get DNS realted information from DNS servers. We can get web server IP address, Mail Server IP address, Alternative IP addresses, DNS Management Information etc from DNS servers with the nslookup command. Query and Print A Type Records We will start with a simple and general example. We will query and list the A type of records. A type record is used to...
MS-DOS is an operating system and shell used to run commands and provide a command line interface in Windows operating systems. cmd.exe is used to interpret and provide a console for the MS-DOS command. cmd.exe provides different options where cmd /c is a popular one. cmd /c is used to run commands in MS-DOS and terminate after command or process completion. Run Command and Terminate with CMD /C We can...
bcdedit is a command line tool used to manage Boot Configuration Data (BCD). This tool can be used to store boot configuration, boot applications and related settings. We need Administrator privileges in order to change and modify boot configuration with the bcdedit. Help Before starting using the bcdedit command we need to list and learn the features and options provided by the bcdedit command. We can use /? to list...
MySQL or MariaDB database servers can be managed in different ways. Generally, GUI tools are provided because of their easiness. But in some cases command line connection may be required to connect and management MySQL and MariaDB database server. Install MySQL/MariaDB Client For Ubuntu, Debian, Kali, Mint We will start by installing MySQL/MariaDB command line client in the deb based distributions like Ubuntu, Debian, Kali, Mint etc. The package is...
NetBIOS is a very popular and useful protocol used to share resources like file, system information between Windows computers. nbtstat command is used for NetBIOS name cache and names registered with the Windows Internet Name Service (WINS). nbtstat Help We can print help information about the nbtstat command with the /? option or without providing any option like below.
1 | > nbtstat /? |
Or we can just issue nbtstat command like below. We can see that...
