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 ...

You will find the complete list of MS-DOS commands below. However, MS-DOS commands are not the same as Windows command line commands or Powershell commands. MS-DOS (Microsoft Disk Operating System) is ...

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 ...

The "Attrib" system command is used to change the attributes of a file from the DOS command line. While modern computers use Windows instead of DOS, the "Command Prompt" feature has the same ...

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 ...

Explore 280+ CMD commands with detailed descriptions across Windows versions, from Windows XP to 11 The Command Prompt in ...

The Config.sys is the main configuration file used by OS/2, MS-DOS and other operating systems. Config.sys commands loads programs into the memory and sets ups the memory management of the system. The ...

Did you know that pressing the F7 key while using the Windows command prompt will display a box containing a list of previously typed commands? If not, then these tips may help you use the Command ...

I recently said that an MS-DOS boot disk couldn’t be created in Windows 2000. As several readers pointed out, this isn’t quite true. An MS-DOS boot disk can be created using files located on the ...