My coworker Emory wrote a little windows script to identify the user from his/her LAN sign on id. I thought it is handy.

@echo off
cls
echo.
echo.
echo.
echo.
set /p UserIDToTest=Enter LAN ID of user to check:
echo.
echo Sometimes the name is in the comment line,
echo so name and comment are listed below…
echo.
net user %UserIDToTest% /domain | find “Name”
net user %UserIDToTest% /domain | find “Comment”
echo.
pause

Here.

I picked up a few things from there.

• Press F7 for a previous command list.
• View all environment variables: SET
• View only system variables that start with W: Set W
• Find what process has opened what port: netstat -noa
• Widen your command prompt: mode 120,100
• View your TCP/IP settings: netsh interface ip show config
• Weird looking colors: color 8f

Also, check this out if you need a better command prompt.

Tree is a useful Widows (XP and 2000) command to graphically display the directory structure of a graph or of the disk in a drive. More information can be found here. Since I like it a lot and I can not find the similar command in Linux or Unix, I implemented a Perl script to do the same thing in Linux or Unix.

Via Steve Clayton.

A few of them that I am not familiar with are:

Windows Logo+L: Lock your machine (password protect)
ALT+F4: Quit program

Ctrl + Esc: Open Start Menu

F1: Guess what it is for
Ctrl + Tab: Switch between windows in the same program. Now that IE7 has tabs, everyone should know this.

Start + break: Brings up the “System Properties”

Ctrl+Shift+Esc: Task Manager

ALT+SPACE,X: Maximize a window
ALT+SPACE,N: Minimize a window
ALT+SPACE,E,P: Paste into a command window
ALT+SPACE,E,K: Copy from a command window (use arrow keys).

Ctrl+Z: Undo
F3: for repeat find.
F2: for change file name

Ctrl+P: For bringing Print Window.

Update: I found this official keyboard shortcuts for Windows.

• F1: Help
• ALT+TAB: Switch between open programs
• ALT+F4: Quit program
• F1: Starts Windows Help
• F10: Activates menu bar options
• SHIFT+F10: Opens a shortcut menu for the selected item (this is the same as right-clicking an object
• ALT+DOWN ARROW: Opens a drop-down list box
• ALT+SPACE: Displays the main window’s System menu (from the System menu, you can restore, move, resize, minimize, maximize, or close the window)
• ALT+F6: Switch between multiple windows in the same program (for example, when the Notepad Find dialog box is displayed, ALT+F6 switches between the Find dialog box and the main Notepad window)
• CTRL+F4: Closes the current Multiple Document Interface (MDI) window
• F2: Rename object
• F3: Find all files
• ALT+ENTER: Open the properties for the selected object
• F5: Refreshes the current window.
• F6: Moves among panes in Windows Explorer
• CTRL+A: Select all the items in the current window
• Ctrl+Shift+Esc: Task Manager