Free Windows Built-in Services/Tools
Learn to use some common built-in windows services/Tools
Introduction
We often ignore windows built-in tools while we are troubleshooting our systems or trying to find out what’s going on in our systems. Some of us might know these tools some might have heard the name and some might not even know. So I will be discussing some of the windows internal services /tools that can come in handy
netstat
netstat shows the active connections and protocols over TCP/IP connection. This command is known to be very useful while troubleshooting system-level issues. You can check for different switches that can be used in conjunction with this command. Type netstat -? to display the available switches as seen below. Remember to run the command prompt as administrator before executing these commands
You can simply type netstat in the command prompt to list down the active connections as seen below
