40 Windows Commands you NEED to know (in 10 Minutes)
About this video
He races through a set of Windows Command Prompt commands presented as the top 40 in about 10 minutes, running Command Prompt as administrator. For networking he demonstrates ipconfig and ipconfig /all, filtering output with findstr, release and renew, displaydns and flushdns, copying output to the clipboard with clip, nslookup including querying another DNS server and other record types, getmac, netsh including its WLAN report and firewall controls, ping and ping -t, tracert with -d, netstat variants, and route print, add and delete. For system health he shows powercfg energy and battery reports, assoc for file associations, chkdsk with /f and /r, sfc /scannow, and DISM health checks followed by running SFC again. He also covers cls, tasklist and taskkill to stop a process, and ends with a shutdown command variant that reboots into BIOS or UEFI firmware settings.
Key takeaways
- ipconfig /all plus findstr filters IP, MAC and DNS details; clip copies output to the clipboard
- ipconfig /release and /renew get a fresh DHCP address; /flushdns clears stale DNS cache
- chkdsk, sfc /scannow and DISM health commands check and repair disk, system files and the system image
- tasklist finds a process ID and taskkill /F /PID terminates it
- netstat shows connections and listening ports, including the owning process with -o
Episode details: published September 30, 2022 · 10:54 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are NetworkChuck’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.
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