The Recovery Console is an incredibly powerful tool at times when a Windows system boots straight into a blue screen (of death) error or viruses/spyware have even made the system unusable in safe mode. Unfortuantely it’s hard to use for several reasons. Firstky, Microsoft doesn’t, to my knowledge, provide complete documentation for the Recovery Console anywhere. Also, the Recovery Console is a command-line-only interface that’s unfamiliar to most Windows users and even many non-Linux IT staff. Finally, the commands available in this environment are fewer and slightly different from those in a typical Windows shell environment.

This site, Command Windows, provides a complete list of the available commands with a description of each. Also included is documentation on some preventative measures (as usual, registry edits) that can be taken before Windows crashes to remove some of the restrictions on the Recovery Console later on. The restrictions that can be removed include disallowing Recovery Console from writing to a floppy disk, blocked access to some system folders, and not being able to use wildcards on the command line.

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