Learn how to use commands in Microsoft Teams to quickly perform common tasks like updating your status, starting a meeting, and sending messages.

The versions of Windows that are listed at the beginning of this article include a command-line utility (Wmic.exe) to access Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI). Previously, an end user would generally write a script to gather information by means of WMI. Wmic.exe can only be used by the local system administrators regardless of WMI namespace permissions on the local machine.

Learn how to open and run DxDiag.exe on Windows to collect device information and troubleshoot DirectX sound and video issues.

How to setup dial-up connection by rasphone.exe command. Click Start, type rasphone -a in the Start Search box, and then press Enter key. Click Dial-up button on the How do you want to connect page. Type the telephone number and destination name (e.g. Dial-Up), on the Type the telephone number to connect to page, click Next button to continue.

Describes how use Wusa.exe to install and uninstall update packages in Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows 10, and Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview.

Cipher.exe is a command-line tool (included with Windows 2000) that you can use to manage encrypted data by using the Encrypting File System (EFS). As of June 2001, Microsoft has developed an improved version of the Cipher.exe tool that provides the ability to permanently overwrite (or "wipe") all of the deleted data on a hard disk.

Describes how to use the Bootrec.exe tool to troubleshoot and repair startup issues in Windows Vista and Windows 7.

You can add options like this by using subcommands called command-line switches to an Office app's startup command. If you want to use the customization just one time, you can type the command and switch in the Run dialog box (Start menu) in Microsoft Windows. If you want to use a particular switch many times or every time that you start the ...

The following is a list of command-line options that you can use with the Visio 2003 Setup program (Setup.exe): /a [ msifile] Use this command-line option to create an administrative installation point for the Windows Installer package (.msi file) that you specify.

This article introduces an update that improves the performance of the Printbrm.exe command-line tool on a computer that is running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2.