Windows have a lot of tools to manage the operating system and user related configuration. As windows mainly used through GUI accessing some tools needs a lot of navigation, search and click. We can create some shortcuts on the desktop but this is not efficient if we are system admin and use a lot of different computers. In this tutorial we will look some most used management tools command shortcuts.

Commands described below should be entered into Run Command Box. Like below.

Computer Management

compmgmt.msc

MS-DOS Shell

cmd

PowerShell

powershell

Remote Desktop

Remote desktop is used to connect remote computers over IP network.

mstsc

Computer Management Console

Computer Management Console provides some tools to manage log, disk and other properties of system.

compmgmt.msc

Paint

Paint is a drawing application

mspaint

Date, Time and Locale Properties

This is used to configure system date, time and internet time like ntp

timedate.cpl

Disk Management

Disk Management is used to list, format, mount, unmount disks

diskmgmt.msc

Task Manager

Task manager used to list and monitor system related metrics like processes, network, disk etc.

taskmgr