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 ...

You will find the complete list of MS-DOS commands below. However, MS-DOS commands are not the same as Windows command line commands or Powershell commands. MS-DOS (Microsoft Disk Operating System) 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 (It has since been replaced by PowerShell.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 ...

Command Prompt holds almost endless possibilities, and it's doubtful many people know the full extent of what a few lines of code can accomplish. The next time you're bored at your PC, try these fun ...

This is a new machine on which XP Pro was installed. During installation only the basic options were chosen.<BR>After installation, when I open a MS-DOS prompt, the file and folder names have a ...

A small tip on how to run your command prompt as an administrator or in other words, open an elevated command prompt, in Windows 11/10/8/7. We have seen how to launch Command Prompt, and carry out ...