You can now use Microsoft Edit to create and edit text files directly in Command Prompt or PowerShell without switching apps, ...

The Command Prompt in Windows gives you access to do tasks with over 280 different commands. You can use these commands to copy files, back up data, and manage your computer's system settings. It's ...

Windows 11 and Windows 10 ships with Windows PowerShell out of the box. Along with it, came the Command Prompt which was a successor to MS-DOS Command line. Often the presence of two command-line ...

Editor’s note: After this article was published, Microsoft issued a statement clarifying that cmd.exe will not be going away after all. Read Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols’ follow-up column. My very first ...

This runs a continuous ping to Google's DNS, showing real-time information on whether your connection is dropping packets or ...

Windows 11 Enterprise and IoT get an update disrupting shutdown and hibernation functionality, but a more manual shutdown is ...

Command Prompt was a Microsoft-supplied command line interpreter and is called MS-DOS Prompt on Windows 9x systems. (It has since been replaced by PowerShell. This article presents a command prompt ...

If you have been frustrated lately by command prompt windows opening unexpectedly over the last few weeks and you are a Microsoft Office user, you are not alone. Apparently, Office has been causing ...