Powerful Commands in Windows

Windows commands you can't live without.

Command 1:

How to Set Command Prompt to Run as Administrator by default?

Follow these steps:

• Press the Windows Logo key and type in "CMD", then click on "Open File Location".

• Right-click on the Command Prompt shortcut and go to "Properties".

• In the "Shortcut" tab, click on "Advanced" and then check the box "Run as administrator".

Now, every time you run the command prompt, it will default to administrator mode.

Command 2:

Below command will help you to hide all your top secrets, weired photos, the journal and everything.

Follow these steps:

• Select all the items you want to hide and right click on the selected items and select Compress to ZIP file.

• and, then with the Copy command you can hide the zip folder inside any photo.

copy /b <specifyTheImage>+<zipped file> <newImageFile>

That's it, we have hidden the items now. For normal person, it will be a photo but for you it's your top dark secrets.

• To unzip or extract the hidden items inside a jpg, rename the JPG file and change it's extension to ".zip" and then with the help of WinRAR you can extract the files.

Command 3:

Hide folder and files using the command prompt.

• Open Command prompt and run the below command:

attrib +h foldername

• as soon as you press enter key by typing above command, the folder will be hidden.

• To unhide the folder, just change the plus (+) symbol to (-) in the command:

attrib -h foldername

Below is the syntax and switches that can be used along with the Attrib command.

 ATTRIB [+R | -R] [+A | -A] [+S | -S] [+H | -H] [+O | -O] [+I | -I] [+X | -X] [+P | -P] [+U | -U]

       [drive:][path][filename] [/S [/D]] [/L]

  +   Sets an attribute.

  -   Clears an attribute.

  R   Read-only file attribute.

  A   Archive file attribute.

  S   System file attribute.

  H   Hidden file attribute.

  O   Offline attribute.

  I   Not content indexed file attribute.

  X   No scrub file attribute.

  V   Integrity attribute.

  P   Pinned attribute.

  U   Unpinned attribute.

  B   SMR Blob attribute.

  [drive:][path][filename]

      Specifies a file or files for attrib to process.

  /S  Processes matching files in the current folder

      and all subfolders.

  /D  Processes folders as well.

  /L  Work on the attributes of the Symbolic Link versus

      the target of the Symbolic Link

Command 4:

Command to see the wifi-networks you've ever connected to

• Run the below command to see the wifi-network profiles you've ever connected to:

netsh wlan show profile

• The craziest thing is that, you can also the password of that wifi-network. Let's see how we can achieve this:

netsh wlan show profile "Wifi-Network-Name" key=clear

Command 5:

How to associates a path with a drive letter?

• Run the below command to map the folder with drive:

subst driveLetter: "Folder path" 

• Just type SUBST to display a list of current virtual drives.

• Run below command if you want to delete/remove substituted (virtual) drive.



subst /d driveLetter:

Command 6:

See the weather updates using CMD.

• Run the below command to check the weather condition of any specified location.

curl wttr.in/Location

Command 7:

Unshort the shorten URL.

• Run the below command to check where the shorten URL is taking you to?

curl --head --location "ShorternURL" | findstr Location

Command 8:

how to Check the status of a website?

• Run the below command to check if the website is up?

curl -Is https://techtinkererr.blogspot.com/

Command 9:

Create a QR code.

• Run the below command:

curl qrenco.de/https://techtinkererr.blogspot.com/

Command 10:

How to fetch the definition of a word in dictionary?

• Run the below command to fetch the definition of a word in dictionary using curl.

curl dict.org/d:Beautiful

dict.org is the domain name of the server we're sending the request to. It hosts an online dictionary service that allows users to look up word definitions.

The /d: indicates that we're making a dictionary lookup query.

Command 11:

How to open an app/website using command prompt?

• Just run the below command followed by the name or web address you want to open:

start app/website

see the below commands for example:

start https://techtinkererr.blogspot.com/

start notepad

Command 12:

How to delete temporary files using command prompt?

• Just run the below command to free-up the space by deleting the temporary files.

del /q /f /s %temp%\*



Here, /q means Quiet mode, do not ask if ok to delete on global wildcard

/f means Force deleting of read-only files.

/f means Delete specified files from all subdirectories.

Command 13:

How to identify potential energy-saving opportunities?

• Just run the below command in an elevated command prompt to generate an energy efficiency report for your computer.

powercfg /energy



Run the below command to open the generated report.

start %windir%/System32/energy-report.html 

Command 14:

How to get the battery usage report?

• Just run the below command in an elevated command prompt to generate a battery usage report on Windows systems.

powercfg /batteryreport



Run the below command to open the generated report.

start %windir%/System32/battery-report.html 

Command 15:

Genrate detailed report of your wireless network connection history?

• Just run the below command:

netsh wlan show wlanreport



Run the below command to open the generated report.

start  C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WlanReport\wlan-report-latest.html 

Command 16:

Turn on or off Windows Defender Firewall with just one command.

• Just run the below command to turn it OFF.

netsh advfirewall set allprofiles state off

• and run the below command to turn it ON.

netsh advfirewall set allprofiles state on