Command Line – Windows

How to get the volume GUID of a drive

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Windows assigns each drive a Volume GUID for each drive in a computer.  For example, the C: drive might be \\?\Volume{9d573eb6-aa70-11e1-9b4f-0050563b9b3c}\. I wanted to setup a schedule to automatically defrag multiple 13 hard drives on a server.  The default task scheduler built into the Disk Defragmenter interface will only allow you setup one schedule item. … Read more

Reference for Windows commands with examples

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Below is the list of commands that can be run from windows command prompt (CMD). Thanks to the folks who organized all of this at http://www.windows-commandline.com/windows-at-command-examples At: Schedule tasks Attrib: Set file attributes Bootcfg: Enable kernel debugging copy: Copy files Compact: Compress or decompress files and directories Convert: Convert FAT filesystem to NTFS Date: Set system date … Read more