In early 2024, Microsoft replaced the long-standing Command Prompt application with a newer Terminal app. This is a host application for command-line interfaces like Command Prompt, Powershell, and ...

Watch the tutorial's companion video here! Some programs provide the ability to add arguments when executing it in order to change a particular behavior or modify how the program operates. As an ...

A Windows Command Prompt is a screen where you type in commands that you would like to execute. The command prompt is very useful if you want to use batch files, basic scripting, or to perform various ...

The Windows community is a universe of uniformity in which users depend on robust commercial applications and standard graphical utilities. With the Vista release right around the proverbial corner, ...

Lifehacker reader Michael writes in with a nifty tip that was lurking in our comments all along, but deserves to see the bright light of posting. If you're already using the Unix-like Cygwin, it's an ...

Everyone should be able to use basic Windows 10 network commands entered from the command prompt to troubleshoot network connection problems. Living and working in an always-connected world means the ...

While it may not always be the best choice in Windows, there are certain things you can only do from the command line. We've talked about a few command line essentials before, like using tracert to ...

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.

Maybe it’s out of habit, but while there is an abundance of free PC repair tools, I still fire up Windows' Command Prompt first when my PC isn’t running well. IT pros and power users seem to agree on ...

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, ...