Make a User

Two lines to create a new user and give it local admin in a CMD window, only really useful for making admin accounts since Azure took over.

net user <username> <password> /add
net localgroup administrators <username> /add

Related: To change a password it’s just:

Net user <username> <password>

Set a computer to not sleep when plugged in:

powercfg /x -standby-timeout-ac 0

Force restart a computer

When someone’s getting fired change their password with the above and then hit em with this.

shutdown /r /t 0 /f	

Note: The /r means restart, the /t 0 means ‘In 0 seconds’ and the /f means force. So if you just want to shut it down you can figure it out

Scan the file system

sfc/scannow

It does something I think, mostly it just leaves a processing CMD window on the client screen. Great if you want to get a coffee, nobody questions a processing CMD window.

Write text to a file

Put text into a new file:

echo type what you want here > C:\myfile.txt

Add text to an existing file (append instead of overwrite):

echo type what you want here >> C:\myfile.txt

Check external IP

curl ifconfig.me

Download a file with curl

curl -L -o "C:\destination\path" "https://example.com/file.pdf"