The first two parts of my MCPmag.com series on Vista's native EXE files has been a pretty big hit with the readers. You can read both parts here and here.

What's interesting are the sheer number of EXEs available in the System32 folder. My research with Vista showed that "...out of 390 EXE files in a default RTM Vista installation, 234 can be invoked by a user to accomplish some task. Eighty of those will launch a GUI-based tool, while the remaining 154 are command-line tools." After pulling that information together, I felt it necessary to just pull all the commands into a little cheat sheet for my own use. You'll be surprised at some of the commands that you never knew existed, many of which haven't changed since Windows XP!

Part 3 comes out this week, where I explain the 80 commands that launch some sort of GUI tool. As with the command-line tools, I was impressed at the GUIs available that I'd never seen before.