Using GUI and Command Line

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GUI and Command Line Tools

Critical Windows Settings
• Windows updates. Install any important Windows updates or
Windows service packs that are waiting to be installed and verify
that Windows Update is configured to automatically allow updating.
These updates may include updates to Windows, applications,
device drivers, and firmware.
• Antivirus/anti-malware software. To protect a system against
malicious attacks, you also need to verify that anti-malware
software is configured to scan the system regularly and that it is up
to date. If you discover it is not scanning regularly, take the time to
do a thorough scan for viruses.
• Network security setting. To secure the computer against attacks
from the network, check that the network security type (public or
private) is set correctly for the optimum firewall settings.
GUI tools
• The graphical user interface (GUI), is a type of user
interface that allows users to interact with
electronic devices through graphical icons and
visual indicators such as secondary notation.
• GUIs were introduced in reaction to the perceived
steep learning curve of command-line
interfaces which require commands to be typed on
a computer keyboard.
Command Line Tools
• A command-line interface or command language interpreter (CLI), also known
as command-line user interface, console user interface, and character user
interface (CUI), is a means of interacting with a computer program where
the user (or client) issues commands to the program in the form of successive lines
of text (command lines).
• The CLI was the primary means of interaction with most computer systems until the
introduction of the video display terminal in the mid-1960s, and continued to be
used throughout the 1970s and 1980s on OpenVMS, Unix systems and personal
computer systems including MS-DOS, CP/M and Apple DOS.
• The interface is usually implemented with a command line shell, which is a program
that accepts commands as text input and converts commands to appropriate
operating system functions.
• Command-line interfaces are often preferred by more advanced computer
users, as they often provide a more concise and powerful means to control a
program or operating system.
• Programs with command-line interfaces are generally easier to automate
via scripting.
Command Line
Advantages Disadvantages
• Requires fewer resources • Unintuitive
• Concise and powerful • Commands not obvious
• Expert-friendly • Not visually rich
• Easier to automate via scripting • Beginner-unfriendly
• PING • TASKKILL • DEL • SFC
• IPCONFIG/IFCONFIG • SHUTDOWN • FORMAT • CHKDSK
• TRACERT • TASKLIST • COPY • GPUPDATE
• NETSTAT • MD • XCOPY • GPRESULT
• NBTSTAT • RD • ROBOCOPY • DIR
• NET • CD • DISKPART • EXIT
• NSLOOKUP • HELP
• General format of a command line tool is:
Directory> Command <switches/parameters>

Activity
• Fire up your command shell [press Win Key + cmd ] or [Win Key + command]
+ cmd
+ command
• Understand, explore and use Windows command line tools.

GUI tools for managing and maintaining Windows
• Most common GUI tools available for managing Windows systems are
available via the Control Panel
Sample window for managing devices and printers
Activity
• Open the control panel in your Windows Desktop System and explore and
understand the various tools available to a user and/or IT support personnel
for managing and maintaining the various aspects of the Windows System.
• Take note and compare with your experience of using the CLI tools available
in the previous activity.
Microsoft Management Console
• Microsoft Management Console (MMC) is a component of Windows
2000 and its successors that provides system administrators and advanced
users an interface for configuring and monitoring the system.
• Run MMC from the start menu of your windows system
• For the MMC to be useful, you can configure it by adding snap-ins.
• You can configure the MMC to have access to the tools needed to perform
managing and maintaining Windows systems ( Desktops and Servers)
Activity
• Fire up your MMC on the Windows system and explore, understand,
configure and use the MMC to manage your Windows System.
Have a great weekend folks!!!

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Directory> Command <switches/parameters>

• Understand, explore and use Windows command line tools.

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