All you can do in Windows 7 using the command prompt

This time I would like to recommend this really practical, useful and well crafted book: Windows 7 Portable Command Guide, by Darril Gibson, with "all the commands in one compact, portable resource" for MCTS 70-680 (Configuring Windows 7), and MCITP 70-685 (Enterprise Desktop Support Technician) and 70-686 (Enterprise Desktop Administrator) Microsoft certifications. Although you may find this information in the Web, you won't find it in one single place as organized, neatly presented and with relevant examples, as within this book. Using the command-line interface with elevated privileges (cmd, Windows Powershell or better yet, the Windows PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment) you can do this and then some: Windows 7 installation, upgrades and deployment, User and application migration, Windows 7 deployment, Physical and virtual hard disk configuration and management, Windows Update, Device and application configuration, Internet Explorer configuration, Networking (including TCP/IP configuration), Firewall settings, Mobile and remote computing, Secure access control for local and shared resources, System performance management and monitoring, Backups, system recovery and file recovery. Having a powerful "console" is no longer the province of Linux geeks, I figure.