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 ...

With the Terminal, Windows has a common interface for Powershell, Command Prompt and Azure Cloud Shell. This allows you to start the terminal directly with the command prompt. You can open the program ...

If you want to stop, terminate, or kill a process using Command Line on Windows 11/10 computer, here is how you can do it. Instead of using Task Manager, you can use Command Prompt, Windows PowerShell ...

If you have every used the Command Line, or CMD, interface in Windows, you probably have some idea of the powerful things it can do. Creating your own CMD scripts, you can do even more, but faster. A ...

Every version of Windows includes its own command processor, Cmd.exe. Opening that application gives you access to the full range of command-line tools and utilities in Windows. The slow way to open ...

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, ...

Much of the time, opening the Command Prompt as a regular user is all you need. Sometimes, though, you'll need to open the Command Prompt as an administrator so that you can run commands that require ...

As you probably know, most OS X programs will run without any open windows—close the last window, and the program keeps running. If you switch to that program by clicking its Dock icon, a new window ...