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 ...

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 ...

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

In the old days of computing, there was no nice, pretty Windows operating system, so all commands were given through a textual interface. That system persists as the Command Prompt, which supports ...

This post will show you how to clear Command Prompt screen on Windows 11. Read on to learn which DOS command to use for resetting or clearing all items from the new Windows 11 command prompt ...

Windows 11 and Windows 10 ships with Windows PowerShell out of the box. Along with it, came the Command Prompt which was a successor to MS-DOS Command line. Often the presence of two command-line ...

Under Windows, the CLIP command allows you to copy the results returned by a command in the DOS command prompt. This trick can be useful if you need to paste the results of the IPCONFIG command, for ...

I have created a desktop shortcut to a command line only utility, and when i double click on it to run it, it executes, does its thing and then the command prompt window disapears.<BR><BR>Yes i know ...

The message DOS displays when it is ready to accept input on the command line. See cmd abc's. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction requires permission.

There are two major differences between Secure File Transfer Protocol and FTP. The first is that SFTP utilizes Secure Shell, or SSH, to encrypt all communications between the client and server.

Back when I was a kid in the late '80s and early '90s, the best way to get stuff done on a computer was with the Microsoft DOS command prompt — a text-based operating system for computers that looks ...