I’ve blogged in the past about Wayne Martin and his outstanding list of command line tips. These are one line commands, some complex some simple, that you can use to accomplish a wide range of task. The overall number of tips is to 425 and Wayne recently reorganized them into 7 categories to make [...]

In the past I’ve posted a collection of command one-liners that get a ton of work done with (relatively) minimal effort. Many of these have come from Wayne Martin. I’ve been behind in my blogging while book writing, but I wanted to make sure you checked out his latest list at:
http://waynes-world-it.blogspot.com/2008/04/useful-command-lines.html
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One of my more popular blog entries is the one I did about CMD one-liners. These are little tidbits of commands that can get a lot done. The list came from a reader and I was happy to share. Wayne has now started a blog Wayne’s World of IT which will carry on this [...]

A few of my recent Mr. Roboto columns have been about group auditing. I first published an HTA that would report on group membership last December. Astute reader Matt V. found a bug with the way nested group memberships were being reported. Or in this case, not being reported. It turns out that [...]

This week’s Windows Tip Sheet column is about opening an Explorer window from the command prompt. One of my readers sent me an email about using this tip in Vista:
I’m currently running Vista and when I type “explorer.exe /e, %cd%” I get the same results as “explorer.exe /e /root, %cd%”.  So is /root really necessary?  [...]

I have a new blog at the SAPIEN blog that is a visit to an old friend, DosKey. Now, before you dismiss this as old-fashioned, take a moment to read the article and try it out. If you spend a lot of time at a command prompt, DosKey can make you more efficient. You can [...]

I’ve always liked creating audit logs in my VBScript work, but could never figure out how to create a nicely formatted log from a batch file. Now I have. See http://sapien.eponym.com/blog/_archives/2006/11/20/2513469.html for the details.
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