There is “some” GUI in Windows Server Core

2007/05/23

by Mark

I’ll try and post all the GUI options I find for server core in this one post, here is what I have discovered thus far

gdi32.dll, shlwapi.dll, timedate.cpl, intl.cpl.. oh, and notepad!

You can also use the shutdown command GUI by running “shutdown -i”

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