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Advanced Windows commands

Advanced Windows commands

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Advanced Windows commands

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- The CompTIA exam lists a few more command line interface commands that, while not related, are very, very important. So I kind of just threw 'em all together and called them advanced Windows commands. So let's go through all of these. The first one I want to talk about is shut down. Yep, you can shut your computer down from the command line interface just by using the shutdown command. It is not common to just run shutdown by itself because it has a lot of really interesting switches. For example, slash s means just shut it down, just shut it down. However, slash r means go ahead and shut it down and restart the system. There's a bunch of other shutdown options. For example, you can time when you want the shutdown to take place. You can say, well, I want everybody to log off first. So there's a lot of features to the shutdown command, but honestly, most of the time if I'm running a shutdown, it's because I got a problem and I'm usually doing shutdown space slash s just shut her…

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