Windows, Microsoft, and third-party software makers supply numerous useful tools for the command line — but these are not always easy to use. Graphical user interfaces (GUI), on the other hand, ...

The following is a guest post by J. Peter Bruzzese, Infoworld blogger and author of Microsoft Subnet’s February book giveaway Exchange Server 2007 How-To (enter to win a free copy here or read an ...

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 ...

Tom Warren is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is planning to make its Windows Terminal the default command ...

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, ...

When you open a program on your computer by double-clicking its icon, you are activating that program's .exe file and, thus, launching the program. When you launch PowerPoint, for example, you're ...

Microsoft has released version 0.9 of its open-source command-line tool, Windows Terminal, for developers who use Command Prompt, PowerShell, and the Windows 10 Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).

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, ...

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 ...

Windows Terminal will become the default command line experience on Windows 11. The change will happen "over the course of 2022" for Windows 11 PCs. You can already change the default command line app ...