Windows CMD Commands Cheat Sheet

Windows Command Prompt (CMD) offers a variety of powerful tools. Since it’s easy to forget commands, creating a cheat sheet is a great way to stay on top.

This list provides a starting point with some of the most common CMD commands. Feel free to customize it by adding the commands you use most often!

System Information

• DATE – Outputs or sets the current date
• TIME – Displays or sets the system time
• DRIVERQUERY – Search the current state and properties of the device driver
• HOSTNAME – Search the name of the computer
• SYSTEMINFO – Shows configuration information about your computer
• VER – Allows you to view the Windows version
• GPRESULT – Search current applied group policies (RSoP)
• GPUPDATE – Updates group policies

Network

• IPCONFIG – Shows information about network interfaces
• PING – Sends ICMP requests to the target host, checks host availability
• TRACERT – Finds the path for packets traveling over the network
• NSLOOKUP – Search IP address by resource name
• ROUTE – Show network route tables
• ARP- Shows a table with IP addresses converted into physical addresses
• NETSH – Starts is a network settings control program
• GETMAC – Shows the MAC address of the network adapter
• TFTP – Starts TFTP client in the console

Command Line Setup

• CLS – Clears screen
• CMD – Displays another command prompt
• COLOR – Sets the text and background color
• PROMPT – Change the command line prompt
• TITLE – Assigns a title for the current session
• HELP – Launches CMD help
• EXIT – Exits the command line