Command Prompt Tricks, Hacks & Codes

WATCH ASCII STAR WARS IN WINDOWS XP, VISTA, 7, 8 & 10

There is a complete copy of Star Wars done entirely in ASCII characters that you can watch in the Windows operating system (or any OS that supports telnet). The only thing required to watch it is an internet connection; speed does not matter.

To watch it on Windows XP, Mac OS X and Linux

1. Go to Start, Run. (Only for Windows users)
2. Now type "telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl" without the
quotes and press Enter.

Users of Mac OS X and Linux
can directly execute this code in the terminal window.

On Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 7 and Windows Vista

Telnet is turned off by default in the latest versions of Windows. So, in order to watch star wars, you must first enable telnet by going to

Control Panel › Programs › Turn
Windows Feature On or Off and ticking both the telnet check
boxes. After doing that, follow the steps given below:-
1. Go to Start, Search in Windows Vista and Windows 7
and Windows 10. On Windows 8 and Windows 8.1, open
the main Start page.
2. Type telnet and press Enter.
3. In the following command prompt window, type "o"
without quotes and press Enter.
4. Now type "towel.blinkenlights.nl" without the quotes
and press Enter.

If you do not need telnet anymore, you can turn it off.

A command prompt window like the one in the image will
open with the movie being played in it. See the movie
yourself. Did you enjoy watching this new version of Star
Wars? Well, I did and know it for sure that you would have
too.

SHUTDOWN YOUR COMPUTER OR A REMOTE PC VIA COMMAND PROMPT

Most of us shutdown our computers using the power button given in the Start menu. Some of us use the physical power
button on our machines. Very few people actually use other means of shutting down a computer and even less is the
number of people who use the command prompt to shutdown a computer.
A reason for this is that most of us don't know that the command prompt can be used to not only shutdown, restart
or log off our computer instantly but also to shutdown a remote computer provided you have administrative access. It can also be used to hibernate a computer and give a comment containing the reason for shutdown. This post will show you how to do all this.

Required
A computer running Windows
(XP, Vista, 7, 8 or 8.1) with
the command prompt
working perfectly, i.e. not
disabled by a virus .

Initial Steps
1) Press Windows Key + R.
2) Enter CMD and press
Enter.
This will start the command
prompt. Follow the instructions below depending on what you want to do.

Shutdown Local Machine (Your Computer)

Type "shutdown -s" without the quotes in the command prompt and press Enter. Shutdown is the command being executed and the switch -s tells the computer to shutdown.

Restart Computer

Type "shutdown -r" in the command prompt and press Enter. In this case, the command switch -r is telling the computer to restart after shutdown.

Log Off the Current User

Type "shutdown -l" in the command prompt and press Enter. The -l command switch tells the computer to log off.

Shutdown a Remote Computer

Type "shutdown -s -m \\name of the computer" in the command prompt and press Enter. Replace \\name of the
computer with the actual name of the remote computer you are trying to shutdown. As mentioned earlier, you must have administrative access to the computer you are trying to shutdown. To know if you have administrative access,
press Windows key + R and then type the name of the computer and press Enter.

Note: If you don't remember the name of the remote computer, you can look for it by opening a list of all the computers you are connected to by executing "net view" in command prompt. If you can connect to the computer, you will be asked to
login with your username and password. Upon entering them, a window will display the list of all the directories available to you. This should help you know whether you can or cannot shutdown the remote computer.

Hibernate a Local Computer

Type in "Rundll32.exe Powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState"
without the quotes and press Enter. Your computer should hibernate, if it does not, then you must enable hibernation
to do this.

Shutdown your or a remote computer after a specific time

Type "shutdown -s -t 60" to shutdown your computer after
60 seconds. Upon executing this, a countdown timer
displaying a warning message will be shown. This
command uses the -t command switch followed by a
variable (which is 60 in this case) which represents the
number of seconds after which the computer will shutdown.
Display a Message containing the reason for shutdown
Type shutdown -s -t 500 -c "I am tired. I don't want to work
anymore." (with the quotes) in the Command Prompt and
press Enter. The -c switch is used in the code to give the
reason for shutting down and what is followed in quotes
will be displayed in the dialog box as the reason. This can
be used to display all sorts of funny messages. One
example :-
Skynet has become self aware. John Connor did not stop
me. You can not use your PC anymore.
Stop a System Shutdown
Type "shutdown -a" and press Enter. This will stop the
system from shutting down if the countdown to shut down
has not reached 0.

KNOW YOUR IP ADDRESS, DNS SERVER'S ADDRESS AND A LOT
MORE ABOUT YOUR INTERNET CONNECTION

Command Prompt can even let you know your IP address.
Just type ipconfig/ all in the command prompt and press
Enter. Along with your IP address and DNS servers,
command prompt will also return a ton of information like
your host name, primary DNS suffix, node type, whether IP
Routing ,Wins Proxy, and DHCP are enabled, your network
adapter's description, your physical (MAC) address etc .

KNOW IF YOUR NEIGHBOURS ARE STEALING YOUR WIFI CONNECTION

Command Prompt can let you know
if someone is connected to your
Local Area Connection and using it.
Just follow the steps:-
1) Open your browser and visit
http://192.168.1.1 or
http://192.168.0.1 depending on
your router.
2) Find the tab that mentions “Attached Devices” or
something similar.
3) Find the computer name, IP address and MAC Address
(sometimes called Physical Address or Hardware Address)
of your computer using the previous trick.
4 )Compare it with those displayed by your router in Step 2.
If you notice some strange devices, then your neighbour
has been sneaking in on your internet connection and it is
best to add a password.

KNOW IF SOMEONE IS HACKING YOUR COMPUTER/ TRACE A HACKER

Want to know if someone is hacking
your computer? Command Prompt
can help you find if someone you
don't know is connected to your
computer stealing private data. Just
execute netstat -a in command prompt and the command prompt will return a list of computers that your computer is
connected to. In the results returned, Proto column gives the type of data transmission taking place (TCP or UDP) ,
Local address column gives the port with which your computer is connected to an external computer and the
Foreign Address column gives the external computer you
are connected to along with the port being used for the
connection. State gives the state of the connection (whether
a connection is actually established, or waiting for
transmission or is “Timed Out”).

These tricks work on Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7,
Windows Vista, Windows XP and all previous versions of
Windows.