tasklist and taskkill in Windows: Find and End Processes from CMD
Resolve a PID to a real process with tasklist, filter by service, session or memory, and end it cleanly with taskkill - including process trees and remote hosts.
Windows command line
Windows commands admins actually run: robocopy, reg, schtasks, sfc and the rest, with real output and the switches that matter.
How to find and log off RDP sessions in Windows with quser and qwinsta
Use quser, qwinsta and rwinsta to list RDP sessions on a Windows server, spot disconnected ones blocking new logons, and log them off from the command line.
Windows Command Aliases: DOSKEY Macros in CMD and Aliases in PowerShell
If you come from Linux, you expect aliases to just work - type alias ll='ls -la', press Enter, done. Windows has the…
How to find what is causing high CPU usage on a Windows server using Performance Monitor
The server is slow. Users are complaining. You open Task Manager and see CPU sitting at 90% - but Task Manager only…
How to read CBS.log in Windows: what SFC and DISM actually tell you
Every time you run sfc /scannow or DISM /RestoreHealth, Windows writes a detailed record of what it found and what it did…
DISM in Windows: repair the Windows image when SFC can't
DISM - Deployment Image Servicing and Management - is the tool you reach for when sfc /scannow reports corrupted files it cannot…
sfc /scannow in Windows: what it does, when it works, and when it doesn't
System File Checker - sfc - scans Windows protected system files and replaces damaged or missing ones from a cached copy. It…
wevtutil command in Windows: query and export Event Logs
When something goes wrong on a Windows machine - a service crash, a failed login, an unexpected reboot - the answer is…
ROBOCOPY vs XCOPY: which one to use
XCOPY has been part of Windows since DOS. Robocopy shipped with Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit and became a standard OS component…
ROBOCOPY exit codes explained
Robocopy does not use a standard pass/fail exit code. It uses a bitmask - a number where each bit represents a different…