Useful Command Prompts Command - XP

ANSI.SYS -- Defines functions that change display graphics, control cursor movement, and reassign keys.
APPEND -- Causes MS-DOS to look in other directories when editing a file or running a command.
ARP -- Displays, adds, and removes arp information from network devices
ASSIGN -- Assign a drive letter to an alternate letter
ASSOC -- View the file associations
AT -- Schedule a time to execute commands or programs.
ATMADM -- Lists connections and addresses seen by Windows ATM call manager
ATTRIB -- Display and change file attributes.
BATCH -- NRecovery console command that executes a series of commands in a file.
BOOTCFG -- Recovery console command that allows a user to view, modify, and rebuild the boot.ini
BREAK -- Enable / disable CTRL + C feature.

CACLS -- View and modify file ACL's.
CALL -- Calls a batch file from another batch file.
CD -- Changes directories.
CHCP -- Supplement the International keyboard and character set information.
CHDIR -- Changes directories.
CHKDSK -- Check the hard disk drive running FAT for errors.

CHKNTFS -- Check the hard disk drive running NTFS for errors.
CHOICE -- Specify a listing of multiple options within a batch file.
CLS -- Clears the screen.
CMD -- Opens the command interpreter.
COLOR -- Easily change the foreground and background color of the MS-DOS window.

COMP -- Compares files.
COMPACT -- Compresses and uncompress files.
CONTROL -- Open control panel icons from the MS-DOS prompt.
CONVERT Convert FAT to NTFS.
COPY -- Copy one or more files to an alternate location.

CTTY -- Change the computers input/output devices.
DATE -- View or change the systems date.
DEBUG -- Debug utility to create assembly programs to modify hardware settings.
DEFRAG -- Re-arrange the hard disk drive to help with loading programs.
DEL -- Deletes one or more files.

DELETE -- Recovery console command that deletes a file.
DELTREE -- Deletes one or more files and/or directories.
DIR -- List the contents of one or more directory.
DISABLE -- Recovery console command that disables Windows system services or drivers.
DISKCOMP -- Compare a disk with another disk.

DISKCOPY -- Copy the contents of one disk and place them on another disk.
DOSKEY -- Command to view and execute commands that have been run in the past.
DOSSHELL -- A GUI to help with early MS-DOS users.
DRIVPARM -- Enables overwrite of original device drivers.
ECHO -- Displays messages and enables and disables echo.
EDIT -- View and edit files.

EDLIN -- View and edit files.
EMM386 -- Load extended Memory Manager.
ENABLE -- Recovery console command to enable a disable service or driver
ENDLOCAL -- Stops the localization of the environment changes enabled by the setlocal command.
ERASE -- Erase files from computer.

EXPAND -- Expand a Microsoft Windows file back to it's original format.
EXIT -- Exit from the command interpreter.
EXTRACT -- Extract files from the Microsoft Windows cabinets.
FASTHELP -- Displays a listing of MS-DOS commands and information about them

FC -- Compare files.
FDISK -- Utility used to create partitions on the hard disk drive.
FIND -- Search for text within a file.
FINDSTR -- Searches for a string of text within a file.
FIXBOOT -- Writes a new boot sector.

FIXMBR -- Writes a new boot record to a disk drive.
FOR -- Boolean used in batch files
FORMAT -- Command to erase and prepare a disk drive.
FTP -- Command to connect and operate on a FTP server.
FTYPE -- Displays or modifies file types used in file extension associations.

GOTO -- Moves a batch file to a specific label or location.
GRAFTABL -- Show extended characters in graphics mode.
HELP -- Display a listing of commands and brief explanation.
IF -- Allows for batch files to perform conditional processing.
IFSHLP.SYS -- 32-bit file manager.
IPCONFIG -- Network command to view network adapter settings and assigned values.

KEYB -- Change layout of keyboard.
LABEL -- Change the label of a disk drive.
LH -- Load a device driver in to high memory.
LISTSVC -- Recovery console command that displays the services and drivers.
LOADFIX -- Load a program above the first 64k.
LOADHIGH -- Load a device driver in to high memory.

LOCK -- Lock the hard disk drive.
LOGON -- Recovery console command to list installations and enable administrator login.
MAP -- Displays the device name of a drive.
MD -- Command to create a new directory.
MEM -- Display memory on system.

MKDIR -- Command to create a new directory.
MODE -- Modify the port or display settings.
MORE -- Display one page at a time.
MOVE -- Move one or more files from one directory to another DIRECTORY
MSAV -- Early Microsoft Virus scanner.
MSD -- Diagnostics utility.

MSCDEX -- Utility used to load and provide access to the CD-ROM.
NBTSTAT -- Displays protocol statistics and current TCP/IP connections using NBT
NET -- Update, fix, or view the network or network settings
NETSH -- Configure dynamic and static network information from MS-DOS.
NETSTAT -- Display the TCP/IP network protocol statistics and information.
NLSFUNC -- Load country specific information.

NSLOOKUP -- Look up an IP address of a domain or host on a network.
PATH -- View and modify the computers path location
PATHPING -- View and locate locations of network latency
PAUSE -- command used in batch files to stop the processing of a command.

PING -- Test / send information to another network computer or network device .
POPD -- Changes to the directory or network path stored by the pushd command.
POWER -- Conserve power with computer portables.
PRINT -- Prints data to a printer port.
PROMPT -- View and change the MS-DOS prompt.

PUSHD -- Stores a directory or network path in memory so it can be returned to at any time.
QBASIC -- Open the QBasic.
RD -- Removes an empty directory.
REN -- Renames a file or directory.
RENAME -- Renames a file or directory.

RMDIR -- Removes an empty directory.
ROUTE -- View and configure windows network route tables.
RUNAS -- Enables a user to execute a program on another computer.
SCANDISK -- Run the scandisk utility.

SCANREG -- Scan registry and recover registry from errors.
SET -- Change one variable or string to another.
SETLOCAL -- Enables local environments to be changed without affecting anything else.
SHARE -- Installs support for file sharing and locking capabilities.

SETVER -- Change MS-DOS version to trick older MS-DOS programs.
SHIFT -- Changes the position of replaceable parameters in a batch program.
SHUTDOWN -- Shutdown the computer from the MS-DOS prompt.
SMARTDRV -- Create a disk cache in conventional memory or extended memory.
SORT -- Sorts the input and displays the output to the screen.

START -- Start a separate window in Windows from the MS-DOS prompt.
SUBST -- Substitute a folder on your computer for another drive letter.
SWITCHES -- Remove add functions from MS-DOS.
SYS -- Transfer system files to disk drive.
TELNET -- Telnet to another computer / device from the prompt.

TIME -- View or modify the system time.
TITLE -- Change the title of their MS-DOS window.
TRACERT -- Visually view a network packets route across a network.

TREE -- View a visual tree of the hard disk drive.
TYPE -- Display the contents of a file.
UNDELETE -- Undelete a file that has been deleted.
UNFORMAT -- Unformat a hard disk drive.

UNLOCK -- Unlock a disk drive.
VER -- Display the version information.
VERIFY -- Enables or disables the feature to determine if files have been written properly.
VOL -- Displays the volume information about the designated drive.
XCOPY -- Copy multiple files, directories, and/or drives from one location to another.

TRUENAME -- When placed before a file, will display the whole directory in which it exists
TASKKILL -- It allows you to kill those unneeded or locked up applications.