Summary

Although this chapter only touches on its capabilities, the Command Prompt is a powerful tool. You can use the built-in commands or commands that other Windows components provide. The NET command can quickly give you an overview of your network connections and help you map or unmap network drives.

In this chapter, you learned to configure the Command Prompt window fonts, buffers, and screen colors to make the Command prompt seem more attractive and user friendly. You also learned how to use several Command Prompt commands, filters, and redirectors to issue and manipulate command results. You saw that the capabilities provided by these schtasks can either intimidate you or if you are used to command-line utilities, make the GUI version ...

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