New command-line tools
The following table lists the new Windows XP Professional command-line tools.
| Command | Features |
Configures, queries, or changes Boot.ini file settings. | |
Locates and consolidates fragmented boot files, data files, and folders on local volumes. | |
Manages disks, partitions, or volumes. | |
Queries for a list of drivers and driver properties. | |
Enables an administrator to create a custom event in a specified event log. | |
Lists the events and event properties from one or more event logs. | |
Displays and configures event triggers on local or remote machines. | |
Manages reparse points, managing sparse files, dismounting a volume, or extending a volume. | |
Obtains the media access control (MAC) address and list of network protocols | |
Starts Help and Support Center. | |
Configures Internet Protocol Security (IPSec) policies in the directory service, or in a local or remote registry. Ipseccmd is a command-line version of the IP Security Policies Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-in. | |
Manages and schedules performance counter and event trace log collections on local and remote systems. | |
Queries, displays, or disconnects open files. | |
Displays and configures the paging file Virtual Memory settings of a system. | |
Enables you to open a Performance console configured with settings files from Windows NT 4.0 version of Performance Monitor. | |
Configures or displays configuration information about a printer. | |
Adds, deletes, and lists printer drivers from local or remote print servers. | |
Pauses, resumes, cancels, and lists print jobs. | |
Adds, deletes, and lists printers or printer connections, in addition to setting and displaying the default printer. | |
Creates, deletes, and lists standard TCP/IP printer ports, in addition to displaying and changing port configuration. | |
Prints a test page, pauses or resumes a printer, and clears a printer queue. | |
Extracts performance counters from performance counter logs into other formats, such as text-TSV (for tab-delimited text), text-CSV (for comma-delimited text), binary-BIN, or SQL. | |
Retrieves and sets information about services. Tests and debugs service programs. | |
Schedules commands and programs to run periodically or at a specific time. Adds and removes tasks from the schedule, starts and stops tasks on demand, and displays and changes scheduled tasks. | |
Shuts down or restarts a local or remote computer. | |
Queries the system for basic system configuration information. | |
Ends one or more tasks or processes. | |
Displays a list of applications, services, and the Process ID (PID) currently running on either a local or a remote computer. | |
Processes event trace logs or real-time data from instrumented event trace providers and allows you to generate trace analysis reports and CSV (comma-delimited) files for the events generated. | |
Writes performance counter data to the command window or to a supported log file format. | |
Eases the use of Windows Management Insturmentation (WMI) and systems managed through WMI. |
