This runs a continuous ping to Google's DNS, showing real-time information on whether your connection is dropping packets or ...

Maybe it’s out of habit, but while there is an abundance of free PC repair tools, I still fire up Windows' Command Prompt first when my PC isn’t running well. IT pros and power users seem to agree on ...

Command Prompt is one of the most valuable tools in Windows as it allows developers to test their codes, allows users to flash custom ROMs, pings their WiFi networks, changes a number of hidden ...

In the beginning, all we had was the command line. Then as Windows matured, the need to access that throwback interface waned. That doesn’t mean the Command Prompt is completely useless. In fact, ...

Apple crippling command line functions Mac OS X 10.2.2? A Tenon Intersystems Engineer told MacFixIt that Apple has inexplicably removed a valuable feature (for some users), in Mac OS X 10.2.2 - the ...

Problems with iMac SuperDrive Update? MacFixIt reader Marnik reports that the recently release iMac SuperDrive firmware update disabled Toast 5.2's functionality, and ceased his drive's ability to ...

If you want to use the command-line version of Microsoft Support and Recovery Assistant (SaRA) on a Windows 11/10 computer, here is how you can do that. It is suitable for remote diagnostics of ...

Click for a PDF with this and four other essential Linux articles. And, if you’ve ever heard anyone say that for Unix, everything is a file, you might not be too surprised to learn that lsof works ...

Modern network connectivity is light years ahead of what it once was. Even though it's much more reliable than it was in the 1990s, issues still come up -- which is why I'm glad that Linux includes a ...

I pulled up the microsoft help file on it but am unfamiliar with some of the terms.<BR><BR>Oh yeah,the network, W2K server with domain and windows 2000 pro workstations.<BR><BR>The net time command ...

In this post, we will learn how to open the Command Prompt window at the Login screen or Boot on your Windows PC. Command Prompt (cmd.exe) is the default command line interpreter for Windows. It is ...