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 ...

Volume Shadow Copy Service or VSS enables the Windows computer to create snapshots of your local files. The Vssadmin command-line tool allows to access these snapshots, and lists and deletes 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 ...

The Windows GUI may be easy for the average user to navigate, but power users and IT pros alike still recognize the usefulness of the command prompt. Bill Detwiler shows you five tricks that will help ...

You can now use Microsoft Edit to create and edit text files directly in Command Prompt or PowerShell without switching apps, ...

Under Windows, the CLIP command allows you to copy the results returned by a command in the DOS command prompt. This trick can be useful if you need to paste the results of the IPCONFIG command, for ...

If you have two machines running Windows and Linux and want to copy files from one to another, this step-by-step guide will help you get the job done. You can use PowerShell Remoting Over SSH to copy ...

Maintaining an Excel spreadsheet of computer files can help you keep track of important business documents or images. Unfortunately, Microsoft Excel doesn't include a one-step method for importing a ...

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 ...