You’d think the Command Prompt would be long-gone after 30 years of Windows’ graphical interface, but it’s not, and there’s a good reason why. Though many of its duties have been replaced by icons or ...

Windows Terminal brings that same vibe to the desktop, giving you the ability to open and use the Windows Terminal in Quake ...

Command Prompt (or CMD) is Microsoft’s command-line interpreter for its Windows operating systems. It enables you to use commands for performing various operations on your computer — everything from ...

Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for Ziff-Davis' Computer Select, back when CDs were new-fangled, and IBM's PC XT was wowing the crowds at Comdex. He spent more ...

The default behavior of ping on Linux and other Unix-like systems is different from Windows. On Windows, the ping command ...

Command Prompt is tagged among the essential tools in Windows computers. This text-based operating system has been in existence since before the official introduction of graphical user interfaces and ...

Buried deep within Windows’ bosom is a carbon-crusted fossil from the ancient days of computing. This aged wart on Windows’ soul harkens back to a more primitive time, when computers lacked the oomph ...

Improve the performance of XP and Vista--at least a little bit--by running its built-in disk defragmenter with your choice of command switches. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology ...

Schools and businesses may disable access to the command prompt to keep users from changing system settings and potentially damaging or crashing the computer. Whether you are hiring a new technical ...

Don’t you love it when you hunt for a program that you need toperform one function, find it…and then discover that it does awhole lot more? I found Take Command 10.0 after being frustrated withthe ...