Management Consoles
A management console that allows you to view and edit the properties of installed hardware as well as update drivers.
What is the Device Manager? (devmgmt.msc)
A management console used to create, modify, disable, and delete user accounts.
What is the Local Users and Groups console (lusrmgr.msc)?
A management console for viewing and managing the logs generated by your computer. These logs may be generated by the system, apps, etc.
What is the Event Viewer (eventvwr.msc)?
The executable for the command prompt.
What is cmd.exe?
A command used to duplicate a file.
What is copy?
Management console allows you to view and edit the drives on a computer. Used to partition and format drives.
What is the Disk Manager (diskmgmt.msc)?
A management console for viewing and importing digital certificates.
What is the Certificate Manager (certmgr.exe)?
A program used to monitor the systems key resources and running apps, services, and processes. Designed for use by average users.
What is the Task Manager (taskmgr.exe)?
The command used to see a list of commands, to learn more about a command, or to see the options associated with a command.
What is help?
The command(s) used to duplicate a folder and retain its structure (the files/folders inside the folder).
What is xcopy (or robocopy)?
A management console used to defragment a drive.
What is the Defragment and Optimize Drives tool (dfrgui.exe)?
A management console used to manage the group policies used for administration of fleets of computers. Not specifically a part of Active Directory, but does interact with Active Directory's Group Policy Objects.
What is the Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc)?
An enhanced version of the task manager that shows graphs of resources usage along with statistics
What is the Resource Monitor (resmon.exe)?
The command used to list out files and folders in the working directory.
What is dir?
The command used to create a directory.
What is md (make directory)?
A tool used to track files that can be erased. Used to help delete unnecessary files and free up some extra space.
What is the Disk Clean-Up tool (cleanmgr.exe)?
A management console for viewing and editing a database of operating system, device, and software configuration settings.
What is the Registry Editor (regedit.exe)?
Real time monitoring of system resources used by specific apps as opposed to tracking performance metrics over time for identifying trends.
What is the difference between the Resource Monitor vs the Performance Monitor?
The command used to change the working directory to another folder.
What is cd?
The disk management tool that can be used for partitioning and creating volumes, finding information about drives, and more.
What is diskpart?
A management console used to schedule programs or scripts to execute at a specific time or on a user defined schedule.
What is the Task Scheduler (taskschd.msc)?
A tool that gives a comprehensive report about a system's hardware and software components, including system resources, firmware and OS version, driver file locations, environment variables, network status, etc.
A container for multiple other tools and snap-ins that can be customized by the user.
What is a custom Microsoft Management Console (mmc)?
A command used to either change the location of a file, or rename it.
What is mv?
The command that scans for bad drive sectors then repairs any faults it finds.
What is chkdsk?