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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In my quest for the perfect command prompt, I’ve resurrected ANSI. For my more mature readers, this might bring back fond memories. The Ansi.sys driver allowed you to add special formatting and colors ...

I'm a command line beginner, but these days I'm starting to use it more and more on my Mac, in Cygwin on my PC, and now sometimes even on a Unix server. I've seen other people's command line prompts ...

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.

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 ...

A command-line interface is a terminal-style screen where you type commands at a prompt, one line at a time. You might associate it with the MS-DOS operating system that was widely used until the ...

How often do you need to run the Command Prompt, PowerShell, or Windows Terminal as administrator on your Windows 11/10? For me what happens is, I often forget to ...

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 ...