A little while ago, I had a user call in and ask when their password would expire. Luckily, this information is readily accessible if you know where – and how – to look. Here’s how:
(more…)Tag: cmd
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Quickly check user logon time
With surprising regularity, I need to check when a user last logged in. I recently found a command that returns this information;
(more…)quser. Using it is simple enough; open a command prompt, enter the command, and hit return: -
Windows: Quickly find system information
For a number of reasons, I often find myself needing to find information about a system that can be somewhat difficult to source, such as when it was last rebooted, or when the system was installed originally. Luckily, there’s a tool to help us out, called System Information. A command line utility,
systeminfo.exe, offers a lot of information. This is both good and bad. It is good, because there are lots of things to be found. It is bad, because it can be hard to find the specific thing you are looking for. Enter the Pipe. By adding a vertical bar and a search query, we can find the exact information we are looking for without having to wade through irrelevant information.