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These command  help you to have more control over your windows machine and also provide you with number of options for  customizing your windowsenvironment. Moreover through some of these windows commands you can set or reset anything on your computer(if you have administrative privileges).

For Newbie

What is Command Prompt ?  

Command Prompt is a command line interpreter application available in most Windows operating systems.
Command Prompt is officially called Windows Command Processor but is also sometimes called the command shell or by its file name cmd.exe.Note: Command Prompt is sometimes incorrectly referred to as “the DOS prompt” or as MS-DOS itself. Command Prompt is a Windows program that emulates many of the command line abilities available in MS-DOS but it is not actually MS-DOS.

To use thse commands just -
Go to start ,
Click on run , or just press “WIN + R” for directly opening it, and enter any of these following commands -


  • compmgmt.msc  – It will open a computer management window
  • cmd – It will open a command prompt(dos shell not to be confused with cmd command)
  • diskmgmt.msc – It will open a disk management window
  • dfrg.msc – It will open a disk defrag window
  • devmgmt.msc – It will open a device manager window
  • eventvwr.msc – It will open an event viewer window
  • fsmgmt.msc – It will open a shared folders window
  • gpedit.msc – It will open a group policies window
  • lusrmgr.msc – It will open a local users and groups window
  • perfmon.msc – It will open a performance monitor window
  • rsop.msc – It will open a resultant set of policies window
  • secpol.msc – It will open a local security settings window
  • services.msc – It will open a Various Services window
  • msconfig - It will open a system configuration utility window
  • regedit – It will open a registry editor window
  • msinfo32 -It will open a system information window
  • sysedit -It will open a system edit window
  • win.ini – It will open a windows loading information(also system.ini)
  • winver – It will open a Shows current version of windows
  • mailto - It will open a Opens default email client.
  • PSR –  For recording purpose in win 7

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