How to Ping a System to See if It's Alive
Learn the first couple of simple steps to hacking a computer, or just plain screwing up someone's computer completely. It is very simple and can be learnt in seconds. Go to command prompt by typing cmd in 'run', or in the start menu...
Method 1 of 2:
Opening Command Prompt in Elevated Mode
- Go to command prompt by typing cmd in "run", or in the start menu search bar. Alternatively, you can go to all programs or programs in the start menu, then go to accessories and then command prompt. If it disabled by your administrator, go to windows powershell.
- While opening the Prompt/Powershell, right click on it and open Run as Administrator. You now have it opened in elevated mode.
- If you can't get into command prompt, or powershell isn't installed, type this in notepad:
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n - @echo off
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start
- Then go to file in the menu bar, click file, then "Save as". Save it as: command.exe on the desktop. Open this and click the little button that says "Ignore", it is done!
Method 2 of 2:
Ping It
- Now that you've opened the command prompt, type:
ping IP
where IP is a IP4 address from somewhere, for example, this site. (e.g. of a random IP4: 167.545.23.7)
If you recover success with the pinging process, you should get: PINGING STATISTICS: packets sent: [insert number here], packets received: [insert number here], loss: (0%)
If you get this, the pinging was successful.
- You can also ping a website. Type
ping google.com
to ping Google.
Update 04 March 2020
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