Harness the power of the command line on Windows.

In Windows 11/10, you can open a Command Prompt window in full-screen mode. In Windows 7 or Windows Vista, if you try to maximize the Command Prompt window, it will expand only to cover about half the ...

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 Though many of its duties have been replaced by icons or ...

Microsoft talked briefly about the new features in its upcoming Windows 10 operating system, but it glossed over one thing that will surely be of great interest to sysadmins and developers alike: the ...

Brien takes a look at what's new with Microsoft's next Command Prompt and explains why you should be excited. The Command Prompt has been a part of Windows since the very beginning, and remains one of ...

Today, you might be accustomed to using the Windows 11 Settings app more often. Or the Task Manager to do tasks like checking your computer's disks and stopping apps that aren't responding. But in the ...

Windows 11's sudo command revolutionizes elevated permissions, making PowerShell's 'Run as Administrator' method obsolete.

In the beginning, all we had was the command line. Then as Windows matured, the need to access that throwback interface waned. That doesn’t mean the Command Prompt is completely useless. In fact, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Understanding your disk usage is an important thing to maintain the sanity of your Windows PCs. If you act without this insight, you may ultimately slow down your computer and make things puzzling ...