3 Better Ways to Organize Your To-Do List. Give each day of the week a “theme,” and then structure your daily to-do lists around that. For example, I purposely put a lot of administrative tasks on Fridays, since it’s the end of the week and I’m ready for some mindless tasks by then. In contrast, Tuesdays are strictly for working. Feb 27, 2013 But as Jim Collins says, your “stop-doing” list is just as important as your to-do list. If you’re doing any of these things, or thinking about it, stop, pause for a moment, and think again. Over-Designing Everything. Deep down we’re all perfectionists.
The net command is a Command Prompt command that can be used to manage almost any aspect of a network and its settings including network shares, network print jobs, network users, and much more.
Net Command Availability
The net command is available from within the Command Prompt in all Windows operating systems including Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, and more.
The availability of certain net command switches and other net command syntax may differ from operating system to operating system.
Net Command Syntax
net [accounts | computer | config | continue | file | group | help | helpmsg | localgroup | name | pause | print | send | session | share | start | statistics | stop | time | use | user | view]
Learn how to read command syntax if you're not sure how to interpret the net command syntax shown above or described below.
You can save to a file whatever a net command shows on screen using a redirection operator with the command. Learn how to redirect command output to a file or see our list of command prompt tricks for more tips.
Net & Net1
You may have come across the net1 command and wondered what it was, maybe even more baffled that it seems to function exactly like the net command. The reason it seems to act just like the net command is because it is the net command.
Only in Windows NT and Windows 2000 was there a difference in the net command and the net1 command. The net1 command was made available in these two operating systems as a temporary fix for a Y2K issue that impacted the net command.
This Y2K issue with the net command was corrected before Windows XP was even released but you'll still find net1 in Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, and 10 to maintain compatibility with older programs and scripts that used net1 when it was necessary to do so.
Net Command Examples
This is one of the simplest net commands that lists all the networked devices.
In my example, you can see that the result of the net view command shows that my computer and another called COLLEGEBUD are on the same network.
In the above example, I'm sharing the Z:Downloads folder with everyone on the network and giving all of them full read/write access. You could modify this one by replacing FULL with READ or CHANGE for those rights only, as well as replace everyone with a specific username to give share access to just that one user account.
This example of the net accounts command forces a user's password to expire after 180 days. This number can be anywhere from 1 to 49,710, or UNLIMITED can be used so that the password never expires. Default is 90 days.
The above net command example is how you'd stop the Print Spooler service from the command line. Services can also started, stopped, and restarted via the Services graphical tool in Windows (services.msc), but using the net stop command lets you control them from places like Command Prompt and BAT files.
Executing the net start command without any options following it (e.g. net start 'print spooler') is useful if you want to see a list of currently running services. This list can be helpful when managing services because you don't have to leave the command line to see which services are running.
Net Related Commands
The net commands are network-related commands and so may often be used for troubleshooting or management alongside commands like ping, tracert, ipconfig, netstat, nslookup, and others.