Windows

recovery

list drives:

wmic logicaldisk get caption,providername,drivetype,volumename

also start notepad and open: commdlg!!!

Scripting firewall changes:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee692652.aspx

Deployment Image Servicing and Management

A possible way to clean up SXS (Side-by-side assembly)

dism /online /cleanup-image /spsuperseded

http://www.iishacks.com/2011/06/23/reduce-windows-7-winsxs-folder-size/

Resource Checker

>sfc
Microsoft (R) Windows (R) Resource Checker Version 6.0
Copyright (c) 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Scans the integrity of all protected system files and replaces incorrect version s with correct Microsoft versions.

SFC [/SCANNOW] [/VERIFYONLY] [/SCANFILE=<file>] [/VERIFYFILE=<file>]
    [/OFFWINDIR=<offline windows directory> /OFFBOOTDIR=<offline boot directory>]

/SCANNOW        Scans integrity of all protected system files and repairs files with problems when possible.
/VERIFYONLY     Scans integrity of all protected system files. No repair operati on is performed.
/SCANFILE       Scans integrity of the referenced file, repairs file if problems are identified. Specify full path <file>
/VERIFYFILE     Verifies the integrity of the file with full path <file>.  No repair operation is performed.
/OFFBOOTDIR     For offline repair specify the location of the offline boot directory
/OFFWINDIR      For offline repair specify the location of the offline windows directory

e.g.

        sfc /SCANNOW
        sfc /VERIFYFILE=c:\windows\system32\kernel32.dll
        sfc /SCANFILE=d:\windows\system32\kernel32.dll /OFFBOOTDIR=d:\ /OFFWINDIR=d:\windows
        sfc /VERIFYONLY