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 ...

In the MS-Dos operating system, standard system commands are used to carry out various tasks like deleting specific files, changing the directory, listing contents of the specified directory, etc. In ...

The "Attrib" system command is used to change the attributes of a file from the DOS command line. While modern computers use Windows instead of DOS, the "Command Prompt" feature has the same ...

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 ...

One of the commands that I miss most from Linux when working in Windows/DOS environments is the split command. This extremely handy command allows one to split a large file into multiple smaller files ...

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 ...

The Windows command prompt has long been a convenient way to run certain commands or command strings that you can't easily or necessarily run within Windows itself. That tradition is still alive and ...