Learn to use the cipher utility with confidence. This Daily Drill Down walks you through using every cipher switch and shows you exactly what happens in the real world when you use these switches.

Most of the day-to-day operations of managing an Active Directory environment can be done from the Graphical User Interface (GUI), but the commands available from a command prompt can be very powerful ...

Security pros often ask about the weaknesses of the Message-Digest version 5 algorithm (MD5) and whether it should still be used. MD5 is a cryptographic one-way hash function that produces a value ...

I am wondering if there is a better commandline interface/replacement out there and if I should bother. There are a few things that could be improved upon with cmd.exe and I suspect there is ...

When you open a program on your computer by double-clicking its icon, you are activating that program's .exe file and, thus, launching the program. When you launch PowerPoint, for example, you're ...

Sometimes you want to modify the Windows user interface, manipulate connected hardware, and create interesting Windows boot-time configurations. As a systems administrator junkie myself, I really have ...

Hi Ars. Doing some R&D for my boss. I've built a Nano 2016 server and have it running in a Hyper-V environment. Got networking setup and such, but I'm having some trouble getting any command line .exe ...

When writing PowerShell scripts, in a perfect world, we'd all just use cmdlets and functions. After all, the batch file days are behind us! Unfortunately, that's not always possible or even the best ...

If you’re faced with this issue, you can try our recommended solutions below in no particular order and see if that helps to resolve the issue. Run antivirus scan Run SFC scan Disable cmd.exe from ...