The command line is extremely useful on Windows. It’s fast, efficient, and saves you a lot of time once you figure out how to use it. For example, you can use the CLI to download apps directly instead ...

Jeff Werner is a software engineer and has been writing this column since 2007. Question: Awhile back, you answered a DOSBox question for me (Geek Note: IGTM #723, May 30, 2021 and IGTM #779, Jun 26, ...

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 ...

Put it back to sleep. Reason: drive is needed less than 1 hour every day; no point in incurring the wear, tear and power expenditure by having it spin all the time. Related question: Assuming the ...

I'm trying to find a command line utility that will allow me to change Partition ID/Type within a batch script under Windows XP.<BR><BR>For example: I have a disk with two formatted NTFS partitions, ...

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 ...

Windows provides network administrators with a set of scripts and command line utilities to automate the installation and configuration of network printers. Network administrators can incorporate ...

With Windows Terminal, the company is trying to bring all the command-line based utilities under one UWP shell. Out of the box, it includes Windows PowerShell and Windows Command Prompt – but if ...

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 ...

Microsoft introduced a Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) with Windows 10. Initially it allowed you to run command line Linux ...

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 ...