DNS TCP/IP commands from command prompt

IP address, Subnet Mask, Default Gateway, DNS and WINS addresses
What do you use to configure these things? There are various applications or utilities also available to configure TCP/IP settings and many other options.
But you can also achieve all this through command prompt! Isn't it fantastic? Many of you might be familiar with ping, tracert and ipconfig commands available in windows xp. Let us see which other commands you can use from command prompt.
With the help of these commands you can view or modify the network configuration settings of a computer that is currently running.

To get the command prompt...

Press 'WinKey + R' type CMD [ENTER]
• ping webgk.com - Test Connectivity
• tracert - Trace IP address Route
• netstat - Displays the TCP/IP protocol sessions
• route - Display Local Route
• arp - Display Resolved MAC Addresses
• hostname - Display Computer Name
• netsetup.cpl - Network Setup Wizard
• control netconnections - Network Connections
• ipconfig /all - Connection Configuration
• ipconfig /displaydns - Display DNS Cache Info
• ipconfig /flushdns - Clear DNS Cache
• ipconfig /release - Release All IP Address Connections
• ipconfig /renew - Renew All IP Address Connections
• ipconfig /registerdns - ReRegister the DNS connections
• ipconfig /showclassid - Display DHCP Class Information
• ipconfig /setclassid - Change/Modify DHCP Class ID

Knowledge of DNS, gateway and subnet mask is helpful while resolving network issues. The following questions provides you a short description of...

What is DNS?
Domain Name Service (DNS) numbers are IP addresses that a web server uses to refer to specific servers that resolve domain names to IP addresses.

What is a GateWay?
A gateway IP refers to a device on a network which sends local network traffic to other networks. In the technical language it is a hardware device or software application set up that translates between two dissimilar protocols.

What is Subnet Mask?
The subnet mask number helps to identify the relationship between the host (computers, routers, switches, etc.) and the rest of the workgroup or network. For the purpose of security and performance a subnet mask divides IP networks into two different parts. 

Improve Hard Disk performance in just 5 easy steps!

Do you feel sometime your PC's hard disk takes too much time to deliver the desired results? If yes then this hard disk speed improvement tweak is just for you. To perform this tweak, make sure your PC has at least 512Mb of Ram.

Don’t Worry! These are very simple steps which won't do any harm to your PC and that’s for sure. If you don't find any improvements in the hard drive performance after performing this tweak, then in that case, you can always go back to original settings.

Now to improve the hard disk speed, configure a special buffer in the computer's memory. With that it will be able to deal with interrupts in a faster and better way to get the results in a timely manner. How to do that?

Here are those 5 easy steps..

 >>In the Run command, type SYSEDIT.EXE and hit 'enter key'

 >>Open the system.ini file [close other files]

 >>Find a section called [386enh], usually at the end of file

 >>Type this without quotes 'Irq14=4096' after this line as it is

 >>From File menu select 'Save'

You are done with the tweak, now close SYSEDIT and reboot the PC.

You will be able to see the improvement in speed as soon as your computer gets restarted.

This tweak works for any kind of IDE SCSI disk.