Windows XP Tips

Command Prompt Command History

Tip of the Day: More Command History in Command Prompt

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CHKDSK scanning

Tip Of The Day: Run CHKDSK Without Using Command Prompt

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Screen Saver

Tip of the Day: Password-Protect Your Screen Saver

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A Restored Window

Tip of the Day: Maximize and Minimize From the Keyboard

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Attachment

Tip of the Day: Only Open Safe Email Attachments

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Close Window

Tip of the Day: Close Programs From the Taskbar

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A short batch file.

Tip of the Day: Batch Files

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Windows 11 File Explorer

Tip of the Day: What Is File Explorer, Anyway?

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Tip of the Day: Free Up Space with Disk Cleanup

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You're up to date!

Tip of the Day: Stay Up to Date

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DIR /S/B

Tip of the Day: Build and Search a List of Every File on Your PC

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Three Desktops

Tip of the Day: The Three States of a Window

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Windows Key Shortcut

Tip of the Day: The Taskbar Program Keyboard Shortcut

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Pushd and Popd in Command Prompt

Tip of the Day: PushD and PopD

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Double Click

Tip of the Day: Quickly Maximize with Double-click

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DIR /Q in the Windows Command Prompt.

Tip of the Day: DIR /Q for Ownership

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Double-High Taskbar

Tip of the Day: Make the Taskbar Bigger

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Optimize (Defragment) Disks in Windows

Tip of the Day: 0% Fragmentation Isn’t Worth It

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Tasklist filtered to edge.

Tip of the Day: Tasklist, the Command Line Task Utility

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Tree Command

Tip of the Day: The TREE Command

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Encrypting a Folder

Tip of the Day: Encrypt a Folder in Windows

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Cmd Window Size

Tip of the Day: Resize the Command Prompt

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Opening a text file in WordPad

Tip of the Day: Why Not WordPad?

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Taskbar Icons

Tip of the Day: Large and Small Taskbar Icons

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Clip

Tip of the Day: the Clip Command

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Wordpad

Tip of the Day: Try the Word Processor You Already Have

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Using SUBST

Tip of the Day: The SUBST Command

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Search Results

Tip of the Day: Windows File Explorer Search

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Home button in Microsoft Edge

Tip of the Day: Change Your Browser’s Home Page

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Open with

Tip of the Day: Quickly Change the Default App for a File Type

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The TaskKill Command

Tip of the Day: The TaskKill Command

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Charmap with a character selected

Tip of the Day: The Character Map

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ipconfig /flushdns

Tip of the Day: Flush DNS to Help Diagnose Problems

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Control Panel Network Adapters

Tip of the Day: Access Network Adapter Settings Quickly

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File Properties displayed in File Explorer

Tip Of The Day: Three Useful Windows File Explorer Keyboard Shortcuts

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Pointer Trails Setting

Tip of the Day: Pointer Trails

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Combining Two Files in Command Prompt

Tip of the Day: Combining Files Using Command Prompt

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Disk Compression Option in Windows

Tip of the Day: Consider Compression if You’re Low on Space

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Windows sign-in screen with Microsoft Account picture.

Tip of the Day: Set or Change Your Microsoft Account Picture

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View update history in Windows 10

Tip of the Day: View Update History

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Net Start showing running services in Windows 10 Home

Tip of the Day: Show Running Services with Net Start

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Directory listing of parent directory

Tip of the Day: The Special Meaning of “.”

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Moving through a list with the keyboard

Tip of the Day: Move Quickly Through a List with the Keyboard

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Comparison of Customized CMD

Tip of the Day: Customize the Command Prompt

If you spend any significant time in the Command Prompt, you may want to customize its appearance to be a little more to your liking.

Keyboard

Tip of the Day: Two Keystrokes I Use Constantly

I use two Windows Key combinations constantly, and I think you’ll find them useful as well.

shutdown -r

Tip of the Day: Shutdown or Reboot from the Command Line

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mklink example

Tip of the Day: mklink: Hard and Symbolic Links in Windows

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TREE of C:\Windows

Tip of the Day: The TREE Command

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Show hidden files, folders, and drives

Tip of the Day: View Hidden Files

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