Tag: old school

  • DOS Tips: Part 1

    Back in May I started a series of posts about how to better take advantage of the Terminal in OS X, now months later without my MacBook Pro, I’ve resorted to DOS. I suppose it is only fair that DOS gets a series of its own.

    [1] net user administrator /random
    Who knew Windows XP had a random password generator built in? Just make sure and write it down, or else you’ll be in big trouble next time you try and login.

    [2] label C: new drive name here
    Sure you could just rename the volume from My Computer, but this is more fun. Swap out C: for whatever drive letter is attached to the volume you’d like to rename and you’re good to go.

    [3] cls
    Clears the screen. Simple, yet handy.

    [4] dir
    Displays a list of files in the current directory.

    [5] rd directoryname
    The RD command lets you remove entire directories, just replace the directoryname variable with the name of the directory you’d like to nuke and fire away.