Here is the list of command-line tools and the names of almost all common applications that are used by users in the Windows operating system. You can directly run them right from the start menu ...

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 ...

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 ...

Command Prompt is one of the most valuable tools in Windows as it allows developers to test their codes, allows users to flash custom ROMs, pings their WiFi networks, changes a number of hidden ...

Since 2006, Microsoft has been bundling the PowerShell command-line shell that administrators can use to manage their computers and other computers on a network. "Windows PowerShell is a Windows ...

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 Though many of its duties have been replaced by icons or ...

In Windows 11/10 you can open a Command Prompt in full-screen, but in Windows 7 or Windows Vista, if you try to maximize the command prompt window, it will expand only to cover around half the screen.

When you open a program on your computer by double-clicking its icon, you are activating that program's .exe file and, thus, launching the program. When you launch PowerPoint, for example, you're ...

When Microsoft announced Windows 10 S, one of the main distinctions from vanilla Windows 10 was that only Windows Store applications would run on the education-focused OS. But it turns out when ...