Commands for Administrators

Most of windows 7 issues are solved by accessing various commands. These commands can be beneficiary for solving threats of troubleshooting in windows 7. Few of them are listed below,

1)sfc /scan now (System File Checker)

On accessing this command we can run system file checker and verification of windows system files. Now a day’s several malicious applications are available to manipulate the system control.

2) sigverif (Signature Verification)

This command is useful in verifying entire system files which are digitally signed resulting in enhancing the integrity of system. With file signature verification tool we can cross check the all system files. This tool is extracted from the command prompt but it depends on GUI interface, so all operations are executed quickly.

3) driverquery (Driver Query)

This command illustrates the entire driver list installed on your system. And you can trace out if any driver is malfunctioned to improve the performance of a system. Some options are available to give more info

i) driverquery – V

ii) driverquery – si

By using those options, we can find the signature information of the drivers.

4) nslookup hostname

This is used check DNS (Domain Name System) name resolution functionalities. This tool solves many issues of Trouble shooting and other legacy DNS Records that still exist. Instead of host name you specify the host address.

5) Ping IPAddress

This command is required to monitor the TCP/IP network connection. This command works only when ICMP (Internet Control Message Protocol) protocol is passed between two systems. In contrast, if your firewall gets blocked, this command malfunctions.

In the relevant way in typical situations if ping fails then pathping is utilized , it is developed mainly for several routers exists between hosts, syntax of the command is similar to ping, i.e.: pathping IPAddress

6) ipconfig

If you need to view or change your IPAddress use ipconfig command.

a) ipconfig /all

This command is used to view a full system IP Configuration in your system.

b) ipconfig /release

c) ipconfig /renew

If you have DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) deployed in your system then you can release and renew your IP Address by using the above commands.

7) Repair-bde

If your drive gets encrypted by using bit locker, if you’re facing any issues to recover the data then repair-bde command is used it has two attributes “-rkey” and”-rpassword”. And you must specify the source and destination drives. Syntax is,

Repair-bde -rkey | -rpassword


8) tasklist

This command is used to give the list of services that are running on your computer. This acts like a Task Manager.

Suppose if you wish to terminate a process in your system then taskkill command is required. Syntax is,

taskkill service name | process id name.

9) System info|more

To generate the text summary of your system we use System info|more command.