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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