o find information about a command, on the A-Z button menu at the top of this page, click the letter

that the command starts with, and then click the command name. In addition to the tools installed with Windows XP, there are over 40 support tools included on the Windows XP CD. You can use these tools to diagnose and resolve computer problems. For more information about these support tools, see Windows Support Tools For information about installing support tools, see Install Windows Support Tools For more information about changes to the functionality of MS-DOS commands, new commandline tools, command shell functionality, configuring the command prompt, and automating commmand-line tasks, see Command-line reference Some command-line tools require the user to have administrator-level privileges on source and/or target computers. Command-line tools must be run at the prompt of the Cmd.exe command interpreter. To open Command Prompt, click Start , click Run, type cmd, and then click OK. To view help at the command-line, at the command prompt, type the following: CommandName /?

A
Arp Assoc At Atmadm Attrib Top of page

B
Batch files Bootcfg Break Top of page

C
Cacls Call Change Chcp Chdir Chkdsk Chkntfs Cipher Cls Cmd Cmstp Color Command shell overview Comp Compact Convert Copy

Cprofile CScript overview Top of page

D
Date Defrag Del Dir Diskcomp Diskcopy DiskPart Doskey Driverquery Top of page

E
Echo Endlocal Eventcreate Eventquery Eventtriggers Evntcmd Exit Expand Top of page

F
Fc Filter commands Find Findstr Finger Flattemp For Format Fsutil Ftp Ftp subcommands Ftype Top of page

G
Getmac Goto Gpresult Gpupdate Graftabl

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H
Help Helpctr Hostname Top of page

I
If Ipconfig Ipseccmd Ipxroute Irftp Top of page

L
Label Lodctr Logman Lpq Lpr Top of page

M
Macfile Mkdir (md) Mmc Mode More Mountvol Move MS-DOS subsystem configuration commands Msiexec Msinfo32 Top of page

N
Nbtstat Net services overview Net services commands Netsh command overview Netsh commands for AAAA Netsh commands for DHCP Netsh diagnostic (diag) commands Netsh commands for Interface IP Netsh commands for RAS Netsh commands for Routing Netsh commands for WINS

Netstat Nslookup Nslookup subcommands Ntbackup Ntcmdprompt Ntsd Top of page

O
Openfiles Top of page

P
Pagefileconfig Path Pathping Pause Pbadmin Pentnt Perfmon Ping Popd Print Prncnfg Prndrvr Prnjobs Prnmngr Prnport Prnqctl Prompt Pushd Top of page

Q
Query Top of page

R
Rasdial Rcp Recover Redirection operators Reg Regsvr32 Relog Rem Rename Replace

Reset session Rexec Rmdir Route Rsh Rsm Runas Top of page

S
Sc Schtasks Secedit Set Setlocal Shift Shutdown Sort Start Subst Systeminfo System File Checker (sfc) Top of page

T
Taskkill Tasklist Tcmsetup TCP/IP utilities and services Telnet commands Terminal Services commands Tftp Time Title Tracerpt Tracert Tree Type Typeperf Top of page

U
Unlodctr Top of page

V
Ver Verify

Vol Vssadmin Top of page

W
W32tm Winnt Winnt32 WMIC overview Top of page

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Xcopy