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 ...

Moving from Windows to Linux? Here are the networking commands to use instead—plus a WSL bonus.

While you can do almost everything you need in Windows by clicking around, it’s worth your time to learn a selection of Windows' many commands. You don’t need to be scared of text-based commands; many ...

I figure this is the equivalent of "Hello World" for HTML-types, but I'm dumb, so here goes... I have a Windows machine running IIS. I want to go to a webpage hosted on this box with a couple forms ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you can do without the buttons and menus, you can type commands to manage files--and Windows itself. Covered commands include renaming, deleting, and backing up. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about ...

One of the things that has always been lacking is good all-in-one documentation on the various Windows console commands and how to use them. Yeah, we always had the "help" command in the Command ...

Reader Scott points us toward the lesser-known but very handy Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line (WMIC) tool. It's a scripting interface that "simplifies the use of Windows Management ...

Let's face it, Windows machines get hacked, and in some environments it happens a lot. Fortunately, Microsoft has built numerous tools into Windows so administrators and power users can analyse a ...