Windows cli commands+interesting defrag discussion

[lxskllr]

I was trying to find how I could get detailed defrag information in Vista, and I ran across this article http://blogs.technet.com/filecab/pages/447168.aspx I got the defrag g: /v command out of that, so I can see what fragmentation levels are like. The discussion above is a little out of date, but I imagine most of the information is still relevant.

Anyway, I don't really use the command line much, but I would like to have some better tools to accomplish tasks. What cli tools do you guys consider indispensable?

 

[nweaver]

bash

Netsh is a pretty nice tool for a lot of settings/config stuff.
pstools is something I don't leave home without
Windows Server Resource kits have TONS of incredibly usefull CLI tools
Perl, perl > *

 

[Nothinman]

Whenever I'm forced to use Windows the first thing I install is eithe Cygwin or CoLinux.

 

[blackangst1]

Originally posted by: nweaver
bash

Netsh is a pretty nice tool for a lot of settings/config stuff.
pstools is something I don't leave home without
Windows Server Resource kits have TONS of incredibly usefull CLI tools
Perl, perl > *

Perl.....

/shiver