As a *nix user I’m used to the “powers of command line”. Despite the rumors of being a GUI only OS MS Windows© you can do useful things from the command line.
Systeminfo
The equivalent to *nix command such as uptime, vmstat, uname is one command systeminfo.
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| C:\>systeminfo
systeminfo
Host Name: MACHINE1
OS Name: Microsoft Windows XP Professional
OS Version: 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 Build 2600
OS Manufacturer: Microsoft Corporation
OS Configuration: Standalone Workstation
OS Build Type: Uniprocessor Free
Registered Owner:
Registered Organization:
Product ID: XXXXX-OEM-XXXXXXX-XXXXX
Original Install Date: 2006-05-18, 18:48:40
System Up Time: 0 Days, 0 Hours, 17 Minutes, 52 Seconds
System Manufacturer: Hewlett-Packard
System Model: HP Compaq nc8230 (DX442AV)
System type: X86-based PC
Processor(s): 1 Processor(s) Installed.
[01]: x86 Family 6 Model 13 Stepping 8 GenuineIntel ~1729 Mhz
BIOS Version: HP - 15090520
Windows Directory: C:\WINDOWS
System Directory: C:\WINDOWS\system32
Boot Device: \Device\HarddiskVolume1
System Locale: en-us;English (United States)
Input Locale: sv;Swedish
Time Zone: (GMT+01:00) Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna
Total Physical Memory: 511 MB
Available Physical Memory: 229 MB
Virtual Memory: Max Size: 2\uffff048 MB
Virtual Memory: Available: 2\uffff008 MB
Virtual Memory: In Use: 40 MB
Page File Location(s): C:\pagefile.sys
Domain: WORKGROUP
Logon Server: \\MACHINE1
Hotfix(s): 283 Hotfix(s) Installed.
[01]: File 1
[02]: File 1
....
[229]: KB92
NetWork Card(s): 2 NIC(s) Installed.
[01]: Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet
Connection Name: Local Area Connection
DHCP Enabled: No
IP address(es)
[01]: 10.10.10.10
[02]: 1394 Net Adapter
Connection Name: 1394 Connection
DHCP Enabled: Yes
DHCP Server: N/A
IP address(es)
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Shutdown or reboot
The shutdown’’` command is also available on MS Windows. And it’s almost the same arguments as well.
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| C:\>shutdown /?
Usage: shutdown [-i | -l | -s | -r | -a] [-f] [-m \\computername] [-t xx] [-c "comment"] [-d up:xx:yy]
No args Display this message (same as -?)
-i Display GUI interface, must be the first option
-l Log off (cannot be used with -m option)
-s Shutdown the computer
-r Shutdown and restart the computer
-a Abort a system shutdown
-m \\computername Remote computer to shutdown/restart/abort
-t xx Set timeout for shutdown to xx seconds
-c "comment" Shutdown comment (maximum of 127 characters)
-f Forces running applications to close without warning
-d [u][p]:xx:yy The reason code for the shutdown
u is the user code
p is a planned shutdown code
xx is the major reason code (positive integer less than 256)
yy is the minor reason code (positive integer less than 65536)
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