July 2002
Intermediate to advanced
736 pages
16h 43m
English
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More than 140 command-line programs are provided with Windows XP.
You can get some jobs done faster with a command-line utility than with a GUI program.
This chapter covers the most important command-line programs—the ones you really need to know how to use.
Windows XP has a tool that lets you create simple installation programs to distribute your own programs and scripts—if you know where to find it.
Nearly 400 executable programs are installed along with Windows XP. Some of these are familiar, standard Windows programs such as Notebook, Windows Media Player, Solitaire, and Internet Explorer. Many are system service programs that we never interact with directly. However, it may ...