Most used DOS commands on the job?

[Lt. Columbo (formally Joevegany@..)]

Question:
What are your 5 most used DOS commands, on the job, as Desktop support Techs?


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[eminem41269]

format

[DANIMAL]

fdisk /mbr
Scandisk
win.exe

[tyremanb]

mine are (commanest (sp.) most):

1) format c: /s /q
2) fdisk
3) edit autoexec, etc...
4) attrib msdos.sys, etc -r -s -h
5) HELP (they seem to have removed that nice little facility now <IMG SRC="smilies/frown.gif" border="0">)

[Penman]

format
fdisk
copy
xcopy
attrib
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[Gabriel]

Fdisk
Format
Ren *.??? *.??2
dir
xcopy

[Sowulo]

Fdisk
Format
Deltree
Ren
Sys

[Outcoded]

Originally posted by DANIMAL:
<STRONG>win.exe</STRONG>

You mean win.com?

cls (damn that was a stupid thing to type)

fdisk/mbr
format
d:
setup

What more do you need?

[imaeditedbysowulo]

ping
net send
net use
fdisk
exit

[AlienDyne]

1. Fdisk
2. Format
3. CD
4. Dir
5. Deltree

[kingtbone]

I'm all about these beauties

net use
ping
ftp
attrib
edit

Nothing beats DOS commands. <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0">

[TangleWeb]

I'm not going to limit myself to 5. It depends on what I'm doing at the time.

> "Ipconfig /release", "Ipconfig /renew", "Ipconfig /all", or on 9x "Winipcfg".
> arp -a
> Ping
> Telnet
> net send
> aefdisk /delall (Not really a DOS command, but used at the DOS prompt to delete NTFS, Drive overlay, f10 partitions, etc.)
> Fdisk
> format
> Dir, cd, md, copy, xcopy32, etc.
> tracert
>

Come to think of it, these are not all "DOS" commands really, just stuff I run from a prompt. I usually press "Window Key" + "R" to bring up the "Run" box, then type "CMD" (no quotes) in Win2K or NT 4.0, or "Command" in 9x to bring up a DOS box (if the last thing you ran was cmd you just hit enter as it's already in the run line). I even bring up "Calculator" this way by typing "calc", "notepad" to bring up notepad, etc.

[korpse]

fdisk
format
sys
xcopy
edit

[Geek #1]

dir,
Ping,
Copy,
cd,
edit

Ctrl-alt-del (would this count????)

[xt477]

delpart (usually with echo y|)
fdisk
format
copy not only misc files, but con autoexec.bat, config.sys
fx
dir (often redirected to a text file)

[Stalemate]

WINIPCFG / IPCONFIG
PING -T or PING -A
TRACERT

[Pfred]

I'd have to think a bit more & I haven't used DOS day-to-day lately.

What I think is meant by this isn't just any command line entry [tracert...], but those that would have been listed in the DOS, Commands folders: or most likely have copme with SOME version of dos, or is an internal command. I have liked:

debug
xcopy
sys
format
attrib

early days was
copy con autoexec.bat|config.sys
anybody else remember when this was the BEST way. Hint: DOS 3.1x <IMG SRC="smilies/eek.gif" border="0">

[sennister]

This is easy...

ipconfig
ping
net send
format
fdisk

[3D Prophet III]

scanreg /fix
scanreg /restore
fdisk /mbr
format c: /u
scandisk
dir \????????.???/s (I hate finding out after I've spent some time on a computer to find out the file/driver I needed isn't there.)
ping
diskcopy
sys c:
exit

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attrib /s -r +a

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ipconfig
netstat
telnet
ping
tracert

(OK, so it's the Win2K Command Console, but its sort of DOS)

[TangleWeb]

How about this..........

attrib -ugly -nasty -bad attitude

If Drew Carey were in IT.....

[WesFlash]

1. Ping (Me and the user's use it)
2. Winipcfg (user's that I can't find)

Rest are run from the run box

3. msconfig (to fix what the user's mess up)
4. regedit (to hunt viruses and other probs)
5. sysedit (for the win95 clients)

[Todo]

Well this is a question to some of the responses. what do these commands do?
net send
net use

I would say my top 5 commands are:
fdisk
format /s
dir
cd
copy

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Originally posted by Todo:
<STRONG>Well this is a question to some of the responses. what do these commands do?
net send
net use
</STRONG>

net send sends a message to other users on the network. It can be used to send warnings such as outages, or it can be used to chat with people.

net use maps a network resource, such as a file share or printer, to a local device, such as a drive letter or LPT port. For instance, you can map //fileserver/files/ to X:, or //printserver/laserjet/ to LPT2

[Pfred]

NEIther of which are DOS commands.

I especially like regedit & sysedit; which are windows commands.

It might be useful if this thread could be split to the INTernal commands that we know
ver; copy; dir; against the EXTernal ones; Xcopy; attrib, edit, edlin, against other command line usages. <IMG SRC="smilies/confused.gif" border="0">

[Eagle PC Diagnostech]

fdisk
format
cd
md
copy

[Sly]

[list=1] winipcfg / ipconfig ping - T scanreg /fix scanreg /restore fdisk /mbr format c: /u/s attrib /s -r +a[/list=a]

ohhh thats right only five, forgot.... <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0"> <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0">

[Lt. Columbo (formally Joevegany@..)]

Question:
What is the exact syntax to extract a cab file from the 98CD.
I know I can use the file checker utility in Win98, I but I'd rather use DOS Prompt.

I get an error message on boot that says I don't have Highmem.sys loaded, and I want to extract it from the cab files. I'm using the A and Y switches but am unable to extract???

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