Most used DOS commands on the job?

**Lt. Columbo (formally Joevegany@..)** · July 21st, 2001, 12:53 PM

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

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**eminem41269** · July 21st, 2001, 01:56 PM

format

**DANIMAL** · July 21st, 2001, 03:50 PM

fdisk /mbr
Scandisk
win.exe

**tyremanb** · July 21st, 2001, 04:37 PM

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** · July 21st, 2001, 04:57 PM

format
fdisk
copy
xcopy
attrib
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**Gabriel** · July 21st, 2001, 11:30 PM

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

**Sowulo** · July 22nd, 2001, 12:09 AM

Fdisk
Format
Deltree
Ren
Sys

**Outcoded** · July 22nd, 2001, 05:43 AM

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** · July 22nd, 2001, 07:24 PM

ping
net send
net use
fdisk
exit

**AlienDyne** · July 23rd, 2001, 04:05 AM

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

**kingtbone** · July 23rd, 2001, 07:01 AM

I'm all about these beauties

net use
ping
ftp
attrib
edit

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**TangleWeb** · July 23rd, 2001, 07:29 AM

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.