Lifehacker reader Paladin writes in with some smart command line-fu for running quick commands using command line switches: Whenever I want to do a quick "ping google.com" to see whether my network ...

CMD Commands vs. DOS Commands It's important to understand that in Windows 11, 10, 8, 7, Vista, and XP, the commands are known as CMD commands or Command Prompt commands. In contrast, commands in ...

CMD Prompt Here is one of the often-overlooked Windows Resource Kit tools and is still very useful today. If you're like most administrators, you have probably on several occasions had to navigate to ...

In this post, we will learn how to open the Command Prompt window at the Login screen or Boot on your Windows PC. Command Prompt (cmd.exe) is the default command line interpreter for Windows. It is ...

If you use the Microsoft Windows 7 operating system on the computers at your business and need to run Linux or BSD programs on them, you can use Cygwin, a Linux-like environment for Windows computers.

PowerShell is officially replacing the CMD.EXE command prompt as the default command shell in Windows as of the next upcoming big Redstone 2 aka Creator’s Build update, as confirmed by Dona Sarkar, ...