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COMMANDS AND FILES

ON THIS PAGE YOU WILL FIND A LONG LIST OF COMMANDS AND FILES.

AUTOEXEC.BAT

A SPECIAL PURPOSE BATCH FILE(SET OF COMMANDS)AUTOMATICALLY CARRIED OUT AT STARTUP.FILE CONTAINS STARTUP COMMANDS THAT HELP CONFIGURE THE SYSTEM TO INSTALL DEVICES.

BOOT.INI

CONTAINS INFORMATION THAT NTLDR READS ON HOW TO LOAD WINDOWS 2000.THE BOOT.INI FILE HAS TWO SECTIONS,BOOT LOADER AND OPERATING SYSTEM.THIS IS THE INFORMATION YOU SEE ON THE BOOTSTRAP LOADER SCREEN,IF YOU HAVE MORE THAN ONE OPERATING SYSTEM.

BOOTSECT.DOS

IF THE NTLDR DETECTS THAT YOU CHOSE TO RUN ANOTHER OPERATING SYSTEM,SUCH AS WINDOWS 9X,IT READS THE BOOTSECT.DOS FILE TO LOCATE THE IO.SYS FILE AND THEN LETS THE OTHER OPERATING SYSTEM START.

CMD

WINDOWS 2000 32 BIT COMMAND INTERPRETER.

COMMAND.COM

COMMAND PROCESSOR FOR DOS AND WINDOWS 9X.IT DISPLAYS THE DOS PROMPT AND PROCESSES THE COMMANDS TYPED AT THE COMMAND PROMPT. CONTAINS INTERNAL DOS COMMANDS.

CONFIG.SYS

TEXT FILE THAT CONTROLS CERTAIN ASPECTS OF OPERATING SYSTEM BEHAVIOR.COMMANDS IN THE CONFIG.SYS FILE ENABLE OR DISABLE SYSTEM FEATURES,SET LIMITS ON RESOURCES AND EXTEND OPERATING SYSTEM BY LOADING DEVICE DRIVERS THAT CONTROL HARDWARE SPECIFICS.

CONVERT C:/FS:NTFS

USED TO CONVERT A FAT 16 PARTITION TO NTFS,FROM A DOS PROMPT.

COPY

USED TO COPY ONE OR MORE FILES TO ANOTHER LOCATION.

D:\i386\WINNT32/CMDCONS

USED TO INSTALL WINDOWS 2000 RECOVERY CONSOLE AS A START UP OPTION.
( IF CD-ROM DRIVE IS D )

DIR

DISPLAYS A LIST OF FILES AND SUB DIRECTORIES IN A DIRECTORY.

DISKPART

WINDOWS 2000 EQUIVALENT TO FDISK

DOSSTART.BAT

BATCH FILE THAT AUTOMATICALLY RUNS WHEN WINDOWS RESTARTS IN MSDOS.IT RUNS BEFORE ANY OTHER PROGRAMS AND IS USUALLY USED TO LOAD REAL MODE DOS DRIVERS,THINGS LIKE MOUSE, JOYSTICK, SOUND, AND ETC.

DRIVE SPACE

ENTERING THIS COMMAND FROM DOS PROMPT LAUNCHES THE WINDOWS DRIVE SPACE UTILITY.USED FOR CHECKING DISK, COMPRESSION, CREATE, DEFRAGMENT, DELETEING, FORMATING AND SIZE.THIS REPLACED THE UTILITY KNOWN AS DOUBLESPACE IN 6.0 AND 6.20

EXPAND.EXE

USED TO REPLACE MISSING OR CORRUPT SYSTEM FILES FROM WINDOWS 2000

EXTRACT.EXE

USED TO REPLACE MISSING OR CORRUPT SYSTEM FILES FROM WINDOWS 9X CD.

FDISK

USED TO PARTITION THE HARD DRIVE INTO LOGICAL SUBDIVISIONS.

FDISK/MBR

USED TO REPAIR A DAMAGED MASTER BOOT RECORD.OR TO REMOVE A BOOT SECTOR VIRUS.

HIMEM.SYS

DEVICE DRIVER FOR EXTENDED AND HIGH MEMORY.IF IT IS NOT LOADED DURING STARTUP.WINDOWS 9X DISPLAYS AN ERROR MESSAGE AND BOOTS TO A COMMAND PROMPT.

IO.SYS

A BINARY EXECUTABLE FILE LOADED DURING THE BOOT SEQUENCE.IT CONTAINS MANY OF THE COMMANDS AND ACTIONS THAT WERE PREVIOUSLY RUN FROM THE CONFIG.SYS AND AUTOEXEC.BAT FILES IN DOS AND WINDOWS 3X.

.INI

ARE INITIALIZATION FILES THAT DESCRIBE OR DEFINE THE WINDOWS ENVIRONMENT.

MKCOMPAT.EXE

COMMAND ENTERED AT RUN LINE TO TROUBLESHOOT PRINTER.

MSDOS.SYS

A TEXT FILE THAT CONTAINS A NUMBER OF STARTUP AND CONFIGURATION VARIABLES AND SETTINGS,INCLUDING THE BOOTMULTI AND BOOTMENU PARAMETERS USED TOINDICATE A SYSTEM WITH MULTIPLE OPERATING SYSTEMS.

NTBOOTDD.SYS

NEEDED ONLY IF YOU ARE USING A SCSI CONTROLLED BOOT PARTITION,AND THE SCSI ADAPTER DOES NOT HAVE A SCSI BIOS ENABLED. (WINDOWS 2000)

NTDETECT.COM

DETECTS INSTALLED HARDWARE DURING THE WINDOWS 2000 STARTUP SEQUENCE.IT PASSES THIS INFORMATION TO THE NTLDR AND PLACES A LIST IN THE REGISTRY.

NTLDR

BOOTSTRAP LOADER FOR WINDOWS 2000,WHICH DOES THE FOLLOWING:
1)ENABLES THE USER TO SELECT AN OPERATING SYSTEM TO Start.
2)LOADS OPERATING SYSTEM FILES FROM THE BOOT Partition.
3)CONTROLS THE OPERATING SYSTEM SELECTION PROCESS AND HARDWARE DETECTION PRIOR TO THE WINDOWS 2000 KERNEL INITIALIZATION.

NTOSKRNL.EXE

WINDOWS NT KERNEL

RDISK.EXE

WILL CREATE A EMERGENCY REPAIR DISK FOR WINDOWS NT 4.0

REG.DAT

THIS IS THE REGISTRY FILE USED WITH WINDOWS 3X SYSTEMS.

REN OR RENAME

USED TO RENAME A FILE.GIVING IT A NEW NAME WITHOUT CHANGING ITS CONTENTS.

SCANREG.EXE/FIX

ENTERED AT A DOS PROMPT TO REPAIR A CORRUPT REGISTRY FILE.

SCANREG.EXE/RESTORE

ENTERED AT A DOS PROMPT TO REPLACE THE CURRENT COPY OF THE REGISTRY WITH AN OLDER COPY.

SETUPACT.LOG

LOG FILE CREATED DURING SETUP OF WINDOWS 2000.CONTAINS INFORMATION ON THE FILES COPIED TO THE PC DURING SETUP.

SETUPAPI.LOG

LOG FILE CREATED DURING SETUP OF WINDOWS 2000.CONTAINING INFORMATION ON THE DEVICE DRIVER FILES COPIED TO THE PC.

SETUPERR.LOG

LOG FILE CREATED DURING SETUP OF WINDOWS 2000.CONTAINING INFORMATION ON ANY ERRORS THAT OCCURRED DURING SETUP.

SETUPLOG.TXT

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THE DEVICE DRIVER FILES COPIED TO THE PC DURING SETUP OF WINDOWS 2000.

SETVER.EXE

USED TO SET VERSIONS,IF NEEDED.

SYSTEM.DAT

WITH USER.DAT,THIS IS ONE OF THE TWO FILES IN THE REGISTRY FOR A WINDOWS 98 AND NT/2000 SYSTEM.THE REGISTRY IS A DATABASE OF CONFIGURATION DATA ABOUT A PC`S HARDWARE AND OPERATING ENVIRONMENT.

SYSTEM.INI

DESCRIBES A PC`S ENVIRONMENT,INCLUDING DEVICE DRIVERS,HOW DOS APPLICATIONS ARE EXECUTED,AND INTERNAL WINDOWS SETTINGS.

SYSEDIT

USED TO VIEW AND EDIT THE WIN.INI,AUTOEXEC.BAT, CONFIG.SYS,SYSTEM.INI, AND PROTOCOL.INI IN 9X.WINDOWS 2000 HAS ALL ABOVE EXCEPT PROTOCOL.INI.

USER.DAT

THIS IS THE OTHER FILE FOUND IN THE REGISTRY FOR WINDOWS 98 AND NT/2000 SYSTEMS.

VER

USED TO VIEW VERSIONS.

VMM32.VXD

CREATED DURING THE WINDOWS 9X SETUP.IT INCLUDES ALL VIRTUAL DEVICE DRIVERS ( VXD`S ) REQUIRED BY THE SYSTEM.IT IS MUCH FASTER AT STARTUP TO LOAD THIS ONE LARGE VXD FILE THAN EACH OF THE INDIVIDUAL DRIVERS.

WIN386.SWP

SWAP FILE FOR WINDOWS 9X

WIN.INI

CONTAINS ENTRIES THAT TELL WINDOWS WHICH PROGRAMS TO LOAD AND RUN AND DEFINE THE SCREEN,KEYBOARD,MOUSE,DISPLAY,AND FONTS. READ BY WINDOWS OPERATING SYSTEM AT STARTUP.

WINMSD.EXE

PROVIDES RESOURCE USAGE DETAILS ABOUT DEVICES IN WINDOWS 2000.

XCOPY

COPIES FILES AND DIRECTORY TREES.XCOPY IS SIMILAR TO THE COPY COMMAND EXCEPT IT HAS MANY MORE SWITCHES ALLOWING CONSIDERABLE CONTROL OVER EXACTLY WHAT IS COPIED WHEN USING WILD CARDS.

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