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Old December 18th, 2003, 04:48 PM
Steven Steven is offline
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There are times when the command line just can't be beat. Often it does things much faster than the GUI. For example - clearing the IE cache - while that takes about 3 hours using the GUI, and often causes explorer.exe to crash (even if it's empty!), the cmd line does it easily.
Then there's a few other things which I prefer to do via cmd line - such as ftp - although I'm not saying here that it's any better than any of the ftp programs around.

Also, my work uses Novell, which means that I am supposed to log in each time - but by having TweakUI log me into windows automatically, that bypasses one login step - then I use the "net use " command (through an autoexec batch file) to log in to the Novell servers (a command I've well remembered)
Code:
net use drive: \\server\share password /user:username
Although it is rather annoying that it doesn't work in Win98, which is what some of the computers at my work have.

But the main reason I use the command line is not so much for Windows purposes, but for shelling to another OS (eg UNIX), whether it be ftp or telnet, or if I boot with Linux to change Windows accounts that I've forgotten the passwords for (a lovely little trick that Microshaft are yet to disable)

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