Introduction

Thanks for buying Windows 7 Portable Command Guide. I’d love to say that this book was my idea, but the real credit goes to Scott Empson, who originally developed the vision of this book with Cisco certifications. I’ve worked with Scott and Pearson Publishing to help bring the same type of books he created for Cisco products to professionals working on Microsoft products. Scott’s vision started with the idea that many IT professionals who have already learned the theory still sometimes need help remembering how to implement it.

The book doesn’t go into depth teaching these concepts. The idea is that you already understand them. Instead, the goal is to provide enough information to help you remember what you can do and how to do it in a small, portable, and useful journal, not an encyclopedic-sized volume. However, even if a concept is new to you, there’s enough information for you to start typing at the command prompt to gain a better understanding.