User`s guide

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Handy Cheat Sheet
Here are some of the most often needed or forgotten notes.
CTRL-ALT-DEL .............................................................Warm Reboot
Reset button, or
Power button ......................................................................Cold Reboot
F2 during power up ........................................................Access SETUP
CTRL-BREAK, or
CTRL-C ............................ Pause or Break an application or batch file
DOS Commands
COPY [filename] [drive:][path][newfilename] ..................copies a file
FORMAT [drive:] ...........................................erases and formats a disk
DIR [drive:][path]............lists the files in a certain drive and directory
DEL [filename] ..................................................................deletes a file
MD[newdirectory] ..............................................makes a new directory
RD[directoryname]........... removes and erases an empty, old directory
RENAME [oldfilename][newfilename].......................... renames a file
CHKDSK [drive:] .............................. displays a status report for a disk
CD[path] ...............................................changes to a different directory
CLS .............................................................................. clears the screen
Common DOS file extensions
.BAK backup file
.BAT......................................................................................... batch file
.COM ................................................................. command program file
.EXE .................................................................executable program file
.SYS .......................................................................................system file
.INI...............................................................Windows initialization file
.PIF..................................................Windows program information file
README files ................................. text files with special instructions