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Cmd line local and mapped printers to your will all over your network.

I previously wrote about how to delete a local printer on your network but, I have expanded my knowledge on local and mapped printers using the command (cmd) line and decided to share my omnipotence with you. (my head just exploded from ego overload) These little nuggets of fried gold will keep you on the payroll for many years to come. (try to control yourself)

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How to kill a windows task at the command line.

Someone here at the office just asked me how to kill a process in XP at the command line. Presumably they wanted to kill a process in a batch file. Seeing I had to look it up myself, I thought it might be useful to you too.

If you know the name of a process to kill, for example sol.exe (the solitaire game), use the following command from a command prompt to kill it:
taskkill /IM sol.exe
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The easy way to delete local printers from your Windows network pc’s.

You could go around to every PC in your network and delete the local printer that way. Hopefully you don’t have over 10,000 PC’s across the globe cause otherwise you’re about to blow your budget for the remainder of the year. Luckily for you, I found a little script that can run in command line or be written in a bigger script (if you know how) to delete those printers and maybe if you’re lucky, the company will give you a raise for saving them a lot of time and money. (I wouldn’t hold your breath)

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