This is an ongoing collection of dos command line tips and tricks I've run across over the years. I tend to forget what I did 5 min ago, let alone a bunch of DOS commands, so I'm collecting the stuff I've found here as a place of reference. Much of what you will find here is probably posted on the internet somewhere (which is where I got it from) or, I've created a few little tricks myself to help me along the way.

Append to New File - This will create OR overwrite the existing file.

If you are running Windows XP and the shutdown button is missing from the login screen, the first thing to check is whether or not the local security policy has it disabled. If you are working in a company environment, this might be a policy that is pushed down from the system administrators through a Group Policy and you might not have access to change the local setting.

If you are receiving an error that the "polstore.dll" file is missing or corrupt, go to the Error Fix section first and follow the steps to attempt fixing it.