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Jamie: /* Here are some very useful command line commands you can type to get information you otherwise may not be able to do from a normal Windows program */

2021-08-09T03:03:11Z

Here are some very useful command line commands you can type to get information you otherwise may not be able to do from a normal Windows program

2021-08-09T03:02:24Z

All of these commands must be run from a command line prompt or window, what used to be called the DOS prompt!

2021-08-09T02:56:56Z

Here are some very useful command line commands you can type to get information you otherwise may not be able to do from a normal Windows program

2021-08-05T05:48:15Z

Here are some very useful command line commands you can type to get information you otherwise may not be able to do from a normal Windows program

2021-08-05T02:41:33Z

Here are some very useful command line commands you can type to get information you otherwise may not be able to do from a normal Windows program

2021-08-05T02:40:42Z

Here are some very useful command line commands you can type to get information you otherwise may not be able to do from a normal Windows program

2016-11-16T20:00:39Z

Here are some very useful command line commands you can type to get information you otherwise may not be able to do from a normal Windows program

2016-11-16T19:59:40Z

Here are some very useful command line commands you can type to get information you otherwise may not be able to do from a normal Windows program

2016-11-16T19:46:35Z

Here are some very useful command line commands you can type to get information you otherwise may not be able to do from a normal Windows program

2016-11-16T19:40:39Z

Here are some very useful command line commands you can type to get information you otherwise may not be able to do from a normal Windows program

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 This should bring up the System control panel, showing information about your computer, such as RAM memory and other system specifications:
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-[[File:SystemControlPanel.jpg|frameless|left|System Control Panel and System Info]]
+[[File:SystemControlPanel.jpg|frameless|center|System Control Panel and System Info]]
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 To find out when the OS(Operating System) was installed, which can be a good way to find the age of the computer.  This is the command:

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 == Here are some very useful command line commands you can type to get information you otherwise may not be able to do from a normal Windows program ==
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-To find out when the OS(Opertaing System) was installed, which can be a good way to find the age of the computer.  This is the command:
+To open up the main control panel, just type "control" without the quotes and hit the ENTER key.
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-The above commands were for Windows SERVER versions.  The exact same process can be performed on a Windows 10 or prior computer, substituting "workstation", without the quotes, for "server".  Specific abbreviations can be substituted as seen in the case of "server" usage, being abbreviated with "srv", whereas "workstation" can be abbreviated in using these commands with "work", again without the quotes.
+The above commands were for Windows SERVER versions.  The exact same process can be performed on a Windows 10 or prior computer, substituting the word "server" (OR "srv", if abbreviated), without the quotes, for "workstation".  Specific abbreviations can be substituted as seen in the case of "server" usage, being abbreviated with "srv", whereas "workstation" can be abbreviated in using these commands with "work", again without the quotes.
 For instance, here is an example of me performing the same type of command to see how long a Windows 10 end-user computer has been booted up(turned on) for:

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 To see how long a Windows computer has been turned on for since the last time it was turned off or rebooted, there is no UNIX/Linux equivalent of the command "uptime", which shows you exactly how long the machine has been "Up" or turned on for.  A command to get that same information is a subset of the "net" family of command line commands.
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 So, to see how long your Windows SERVER computer has been turned on for since it was last turned off or rebooted, type this from the command prompt:
 <pre style="color:blue">C:\>net statistics server</pre>

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 To see how long a Windows computer has been turned on for since the last time it was turned off or rebooted, there is no UNIX/Linux equivalent of the command "uptime", which shows you exactly how long the machine has been "Up" or turned on for.  A command to get that same information is a subset of the "net" family of command line commands.
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-So, to see how long your Windows computer has been turned on for since it was last turned off or rebooted, type this from the command prompt:
+So, to see how long your Windows SERVER computer has been turned on for since it was last turned off or rebooted, type this from the command prompt:
 <pre style="color:blue">C:\>net statistics server</pre>
 and hit the "ENTER" key.
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 Another way to get the same information is with the systeminfo command.  This is how to use systeminfo to get the time when the computer was powered on:
 <pre style="color:blue">systeminfo | findstr Boot | findstr Time

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 Windows webserver info, such as network SAN(Subject Alternative Names) alias names for SSL web certificates:  [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subject_Alternative_Name SAN Webserver Alternate Names]
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-How to create a CSR(Certificate Signing Request):<br />
+How to create a Windows CSR(Certificate Signing Request) for use with the Apache webserver running on Windows:<br />
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 C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2.2\conf\certificate

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 More command line info to come as I have time.  Thanks for checking this and all of my other Wiki tips, tricks, and helpful information about all things computers!
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 Here are more examples: [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9095948/how-to-retrieve-available-ram-from-windows-command-line Retrieve RAM from Command Line]
 More command line info to come as I have time.  Thanks for checking this and all of my other Wiki tips, tricks, and helpful information about all things computers!
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