Compatibility Center - ✔✔ Microsoft resource to identify if a particular software or hardware works with Windows
Upgrade Assistant/Advisor
... [Show More] (Win8/7) - ✔✔ Utility to check if you can run a newer version of Windows
gadgets - ✔✔ What widgets are called in Windows
\$Recycle.Bin - ✔✔ The place on each drive where the Recycle Bin keeps deleted files
Administrator - ✔✔ Windows Update will run automatically whenever this account logs in
attrib - ✔✔ Windows command to change file attributes
compression and encryption - ✔✔ These two NTFS file options are mutually exclusive
Administrator - ✔✔ The only other account that can decrypt on NTFS
MS Virtual PC - ✔✔ The hypervisor in Windows Vista
Windows Virtual PC - ✔✔ The hypervisor in Windows 7
Hyper-V - ✔✔ The hypervisor in Windows 8
Security Center - ✔✔ Action Center was known as this in Windows Vista
taskkill - ✔✔ Windows command used to terminate a process
bootrec - ✔✔ Windows utility to interact with boot sector. Can only run from recovery mode on installation media
shutdown - ✔✔ Windows command to schedule shutdown
tasklist - ✔✔ Windows command to see a list of running processes
md and rd - ✔✔ These are shortened versions of the windows mkdir and rmdir commands
del - ✔✔ Windows equivalent of Unix rm command
xcopy - ✔✔ Windows copy command that can also copy directories
copy - ✔✔ Windows copy command, cannot copy directories
/O - ✔✔ xcopy switch to retain original permissions on new files
robocopy - ✔✔ Robust File Copy for Windows command
/mir - ✔✔ robocopy switch to mirror a complete directory tree during a copy
diskpart - ✔✔ Windows command to manage disk partitions. Requires administrative privileges.
sfc - ✔✔ Windows system file checker command, a utility that verifies system files. Requires administrative privileges.
chkdsk - ✔✔ Windows utility to check for and repair filesystem and disk errors
/f - ✔✔ Switch used with chkdsk to automatically repair errors it finds
gpupdate - ✔✔ Windows command to update group policy settings. Replaces secedit.
gpresult - ✔✔ Windows command to display the resulting group policy settings (Resultant Set of Policy)
exit - ✔✔ Windows command to stop the command interpreter (command line or in a script)
expand - ✔✔ Windows command to expand compressed files
/? - ✔✔ Switch used with Windows commands to get help from them
regedt32 - ✔✔ This version of the Registry Editor opens the original
Processes, Details, and App History - ✔✔ In Windows 8, the Task Manager's Applications tab had split into this
Performance - ✔✔ In the Windows 8 Task Manager, the networking tab became a part of this tab
Startup - ✔✔ This Task Manager tab appears in Windows 8 and lists services configured to begin at startup. It's functionality was originally provided by msconfig.
Boot - ✔✔ msconfig tab from where you can set boot options
Tools - ✔✔ msconfig tab for launching administrative tools
General, Boot, Services, Startup, Tools - ✔✔ List of msconfig tags [Show Less]