1. Open cmd as admin and go to the folder you want to encrypt. Then type: cypher /e 2. Type: help color to see how to change the cmd prompt colors. e.g. color 3C will give an aqua backgrounf with light red text. 3. To change what the prompt says type: prompt the-text-u-want And the prompt will now show the-text-u-want instead of the drive letter and folder location. 4. To change the > sign on the prompt to something else, type: help prompt to see what you can change it to. 5. Change the name on the command prompt title bar by typing title New Name and the title bar will now say New Name 6. To see some Star Wars ascii text, type: telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl 7. To share your Windows computer as a wifi hotspot type this: netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=allow ssid=HotspotName key=password Then to turn it on, type: netsh wlan start hostednetwork To turn it off type: netsh wlan stop hostednetwork 8. To hide a folder (or file) so that it can't be unhidden from Windows settings use the attribute command with these switches: +h +s +r To unhide use the minus signs instead of the plus signs. 9. To copy the output of a Dos command to the clipboard just type the command and pipe it to "clip". e.g. ipconfig | clip Then you can paste the clipboard contents to Notepad, Word, or whatever. 10. To see a list of all the programs on the Windows computer, type: wmic product get name (Use this with the "clip" option above to paste this list into Notepad or whatever. 11. To open a command prompt in a particular folder, go to the folder in Explorer and then type "cmd" in the address bar. 12. Hit the F7 key to see a list of commands you have used in the current Dos session. 13. To find a wifi password that has ever been used on a Windows computer (for any SSID that has ever been connected to from this PC), open a command prompt as admin and then type this: netsh show profiles This shows any SSIDs ever used from this PC. Now type: netsh show profile SSIDname key=clear And look at the output for the password.