Windows Command prompt: important commands

1. Network Command-line utilities

http://www.grape-info.com/doc/win2000srv/network/netcommand.html

- Viewing configuration by using ipconfig /all

For Windows 95 and Windows 98 clients, use the winipcfg command instead of ipconfig.
Refreshing configuration by using ipconfig /renew


- Testing connections by using ping

- Troubleshooting hardware addresses by using arp

- Troubleshooting NetBIOS names by using nbtstat

- Displaying connection statistics by using netstat
If you use netstat –n, addresses and port numbers are not converted to names

- Tracing network connections by using tracert

- Testing routers by using pathping

2. Others

- Shutdown: shutdown -s -t 01
- Restart: : shutdown -r -t 01