WindowsOS

There are situations we need to get all the sub folders and files details to a note pad, to achieve this we can use windows command prompt

• Navigate to the folder that you want to create a list for

E.g – I want to get the list of folders / files under my C:\Root folder

• Hold SHIFT + Right click and select “Open command window here”
• Enter following command

C:\Root>dir /a /-p /o:gen >list.txt

• Now navigate the Root folder and find a new text file created as list.txt, open and get the all the sub folders / files details

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Volume in drive C is Windows
Volume Serial Number is 80D8-BE7F

Directory of C:\Root

04/25/2017 06:42 PM <DIR>   .
04/25/2017 06:42 PM <DIR>   ..
04/25/2017 06:37 PM <DIR>   Adv
04/25/2017 06:37 PM <DIR>  Baisc
04/25/2017 06:37 PM           0 MyDet.docx
04/25/2017 06:37 PM           0 Cmd1.txt
04/25/2017 06:42 PM           0 list.txt
04/25/2017 06:37 PM           0 test.txt
4 File(s) 0 bytes
4 Dir(s) 301,075,058,688 bytes free

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If you want only list of files (no extra information), then open cmd and type

C:\Root>dir /a /b /-p /o:gen >list.txt

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Volume in drive C is Windows
Volume Serial Number is 80D8-BE7F

Directory of C:\Root

Adv
Baisc
MyDet.docx
Cmd1.txt
list.txt
test.txt

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NOTE:

“dir” command will list all the folders and files under specified folder.

“>” operator will redirect the result of command to the specified text file

open cmd and enter dir /? to see all available options and their explanation.

We already know one way to hide a folder in windows OS –

Explorer -> ALT + T -> Folder Options -> View -> check “Don’t show hidden files…”

But any body on your computer, can revert back this option by checking “Show hidden files…” and can see all your hidden files. [means there is no security to your hidden files]…

Even online, there are many 3rd party s/w or tools available to hide / show folders [most techies don’t prefer to install s/w]

no worries, we will discuss here one way to hide / show folders so no other users can see your files / folders

Using windows in build command prompt, let’s get started

• Create a new folder in C:\ drive, rename it as “MySecret” without quotes.
• Now open Command Prompt from Start Menu and type

Voila!! your folder or files are now hidden [MySecret folder with it’s sub folders / files]

• Now remember the path of your secret folder, next time when you want to see the folder,

Open Command prompt and type
C:\Users\Ms>attrib -s -h C:\MySecret

There are situations where we have more than one instance of processes running, but by using windows task manager we can not end the processes at one shot, we need to end or kill processes one by one, but windows have a specific command which helps us to end or kill multiple processes at one shot, let’s see how we can perform.

Using windows cmd, we can get the same list of processes with process id for each item.

C:\>tasklist

To kill single Image (process), we can take use taskkill command with PID

e.g –




want to kill single notepad.exe process having process id – 14612

C:\>taskkill /PID 14612 /F

if we want to kill all instances of notepad.exe, simple use taskkill command with Image Name

C:\>taskkill /IM notepad.exe /F

IM – Image

F – Forcefully

For more information on taskkill, u can type

C:\>taskkill /?