You can close any tasks or application currently running directly from command prompt. Only thing you should know is the PID of that particular task. You can find out the PID by running tasklist command which displays the corresponding PID for an applivcation.

You can connect to your remote computer or remote IP device through telnet command. You can telnet your remote computer if you the IP address of that computer.

For example, type telnet 192.168.100.244 in command prompt and then it will prompt you to enter user name and password of the remote computer to check your authenticity.

You can determine the path taken to a destination by sending Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) Echo Request messages to the destination with incrementally increasing Time to Live (TTL) field values. If it is used without parameters, tracert displays help.

For example, you can try tracert google.com.

It will then prompt you to enter the new time you want to change.

Windows XP doesn’t have direct command to print directory content so you can do that by combining following commands together. Try this tree DOS command and redirect the output to a text file.
tree > directorycontent.txt

print directorycontent.txt

It displays the contents of a text file. Type command is mostly used to view text file without modifying it. Lengthy text file can be splited into multiple pages with the help of switches.

You can view an amazing amount of low-level system information from a command line scripting interface with this command.