Most of the day-to-day operations of managing an Active Directory environment can be done from the Graphical User Interface (GUI), but the commands available from a command prompt can be very powerful ...

Watch the tutorial's companion video here! Some programs provide the ability to add arguments when executing it in order to change a particular behavior or modify how the program operates. As an ...

I am wondering if there is a better commandline interface/replacement out there and if I should bother. There are a few things that could be improved upon with cmd.exe and I suspect there is ...

When you open a program on your computer by double-clicking its icon, you are activating that program's .exe file and, thus, launching the program. When you launch PowerPoint, for example, you're ...

Here is the list of command-line tools and the names of almost all common applications that are used by users in the Windows operating system. You can directly run them right from the start menu ...

Changing the permissions on files or folders for multiple users and groups can be a major administrative nuisance. Luckily, the Windows command-line tool Cacls.exe can help, especially when used in ...

Security pros often ask about the weaknesses of the Message-Digest version 5 algorithm (MD5) and whether it should still be used. MD5 is a cryptographic one-way hash function that produces a value ...

Hi Ars. Doing some R&D for my boss. I've built a Nano 2016 server and have it running in a Hyper-V environment. Got networking setup and such, but I'm having some trouble getting any command line .exe ...

When writing PowerShell scripts, in a perfect world, we'd all just use cmdlets and functions. After all, the batch file days are behind us! Unfortunately, that's not always possible or even the best ...

You're probably aware that most files have an extension such as TXT or EXE after the file name, even though these are not always displayed in Windows. File extensions are how Windows knows what to do ...