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Windows 7 and Vista Guide to Scripting, Automation, and Command Line Tools
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Windows 7 and Vista Guide to Scripting, Automation, and Command Line Tools

by Brian Knittel
December 2010
Intermediate to advanced
844 pages
23h 2m
English
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13. Command-Line Utilities

In This Chapter

• More than 250 command-line programs are provided with Windows 7, up from about 150 provided with Windows XP.

• You can get some jobs done more quickly with a command-line utility than with a Graphical User Interface (GUI) program.

• This chapter covers the most important command-line programs—the ones you really need to know how to use.

• Windows has a tool that lets you create simple installation programs to distribute your own programs and scripts—if you know where to find it.

Windows Command-Line Programs

Hundreds of executable programs are installed along with Windows; some of these are familiar, standard Windows programs such as Notebook, Windows Media Player, Solitaire, and Internet Explorer. ...

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