Intro to DOS & AHK ComSpec

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Intro to DOS & AHK ComSpec

Post by Joe Glines » 01 Apr 2021, 17:53

How much time do you spend in the command prompt? I was surprised to realize that I rely on it quite often. I also learned a ton of cool tips & tricks in DOS.
1. Windows won't start :evil: / or loads in Safe mode
2. Your having network issues and want to "play" with your network settings
3. For some crazy reason Windows has "locked" a file that you want to copy / move / delete
4. You want to partition / format / resize a drive
5. You want to see what parameters are available for a given program
6. Batch together tasks that will be scheduled to run at a later time with schtasks
7. Run CHKDSK check your disk and & defrag to defragment your hard drive

We also cover some cool tips & tricks you can do with AutoHotkey and COMSpec.

Intro to DOS & AutoHotkey


You might also get the two free tools we created during this course.
1. allows you to add an option for "Command prompt here" to the context menu of Windows Explorer
2. is an AutoHotkey script which will find the active explorer window and create a prompt based on it's active pathYou can get CommandPromptHere
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