Windows Terminal is also great for customization. You can change the appearance of the prompts, pick custom fonts, adjust ...

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 ...

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 Though many of its duties have been replaced by icons or ...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 11 users who installed the September 2025 update might think that it doesn’t really change much. After all, update ...

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 ...

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 ...

A text-based user interface to the computer. The command line is a blank line and cursor on the screen, allowing the user to type in instructions for immediate execution. All major operating systems ...

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 ...

The following is a guest post by J. Peter Bruzzese, Infoworld blogger and author of Microsoft Subnet’s February book giveaway Exchange Server 2007 How-To (enter to win a free copy here or read an ...

You can use the command prompt in Windows to run lower-level operating system commands in a text-based MS-DOS-type interface. This is useful when you need to troubleshoot and repair your system, run ...

One of the sore points of the Windows command-line environment is that the command-line windows themselves, the "console" windows, have always been a bit strange. Back in Windows XP, for example, ...

With a recent Windows 11 update, Microsoft is removing some popular apps and some power users won't be happy about it.