Windows administration

thumbnail|Screenshot of the Syskey utility on the Windows 8.1 operating system requesting the user to enter a password

application debugger included with the Microsoft Windows operating system

computer operating system command

Sysprep is Microsoft's System Preparation Tool for Microsoft Windows operating system deployment.

In the Microsoft Windows operating system, index.dat is a hidden database file used by the Internet Explorer web browser. It functions as an information storage database of recent browser activity, enabling quick access to that information when needed again by Internet Explorer, thus improving browser performance.

command in DOS, OS/2 and Microsoft Windows command line interpreters

EasyBCD is a program developed by NeoSmart Technologies to configure and tweak the Boot Configuration Data (BCD), a boot database first introduced in Windows Vista and used in all subsequent Windows releases. EasyBCD can be used to set up multi-boot environments for computers on which some versions of Windows, Linux, BSD and Mac OS X can be simultaneously installed; EasyBCD can also be used for adding entries to bootable tools and utilities, as well as modifying and controlling the behavior of the Windows boot menu. EasyBCD 2.3 introduced additional support for creating and managing entries fo

The PathPing command is a command-line network utility included in Windows NT operating systems since Windows 2000 that combines the functionality of ping with that of tracert. It is used to locate spots that have network latency and network loss.

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volume snapshot service

feature of multi-user operating systems

command of RT-11, RSX-11, OpenVMS, DOS, OS/2 and Microsoft Windows operating systems

security vulnerability in the way some versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system handled images in the Windows Metafile format

free tool from Windows Sysinternals, part of the Microsoft TechNet website.

In computing, runas (a compound word, from “run as”) is a command in the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems that allows a user to run specific tools and programs under a different username to the one that was used to logon to a computer interactively. It is similar to the Unix commands sudo and su, but the Unix commands generally require prior configuration by the system administrator to work for a particular user and/or command.

An Interrupt Request Level (IRQL) is a hardware-independent means with which Windows prioritizes interrupts that come from the system's processors. On processor architectures on which Windows runs, hardware generates signals that are sent to an interrupt controller. The interrupt controller sends an interrupt request (or IRQ) to the CPU with a certain priority level, and the CPU sets a mask that causes any other interrupts with a lower priority to be put into a pending state, until the CPU releases control back to the interrupt controller. If a signal comes in at a higher priority, then the cu

infrastructure for console applications in Microsoft Windows

BlueKeep () is a security vulnerability that was discovered in Microsoft's Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) implementation, which allows for the possibility of remote code execution.

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In computing, tasklist is a command available in Microsoft Windows and in the AROS shell. It was included in Windows XP and later Microsoft Windows operating systems.

tool for deployment of operating systems created by Microsoft

In computing, systeminfo, is a command-line utility included in Microsoft Windows versions from Windows XP onwards and in ReactOS.

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hoax aimed at Microsoft Windows users

'''''' is a shell command that searches for text in files and prints matching lines to standard output. The command provides similar functionality as find, but findstr supports regular expressions. However, findstr does not support UTF-16 whereas find does. findstr cannot search for null bytes commonly found in Unicode computer files.

command in various DOS, OS/2 and Microsoft Windows shells

file format

computing terms for disk partitions

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standard for executable files in Windows operating systems that attempts to alleviate problems caused by the use of dynamic-link libraries