Windows command prompt window is a console based application useful to run Windows commands i.e., instructions to Windows. It is a simple console based application, so it will not display any Graphical User Interface elements usually Windows windows will display. When we run the command at command prompt the results will display with in the […]
Windows – How to modify file associations from command prompt?
Have you ever observed; when we open a file in Windows, it will open in an Application that supports the file? When you open a media file to play the music or a video, it will NOT open in a Notepad, right? How does the Operating System knows, the Application in which the file has […]
Windows – SC Command – List all Services
Windows Services are the Applications which are running in the background to do specified operations. Windows provides Graphical User Interface to manage the Services. And also it provides some command line tools to manage the Windows Services from the command prompt. Through this Article, we are going to discuss one of the command line tool; […]
Windows – REN command – How to rename files or folders?
Windows provides commands to rename the file or folder from Windows command prompt. Through this Article we will discuss on renaming files and folders from Widows command prompt. REN command – Rename files or folders REN or RENAME command is used to rename the files or folders in Windows Operating System. We can use this […]
Windows – COMP command – Compare files and display the differences
Windows provides COMP tool to compare the files. We will discuss about this in this Article. Compare files and display the differences COMP command is used to compare the content of the files and shows where the difference was identified. It compares the content byte by byte. Before it start comparing the files, first it […]
Windows – MKLINK – How to create a Symbolic link?
Windows provides a mechanism to allow you to create Symbolic link to your File, Program or to a Folder. Symbolic links are the special files (NOT Shortcuts) points to another source file or directory. MKLINK command is useful to create the Symbolic links in Windows. Create a Symbolic link To create a Symbolic link, you […]
Windows – FIND command – How to search for the string in files?
We have discussed finding files in the current and specified directories using DIR command from Windows command prompt. DIR command doesn’t useful to search the string in the files. Hence we have FIND command. FIND command This command is used to search for a string in the files. You need to pass relevant arguments to this […]
Windows – ATTRIB command – How to manage file attributes?
Windows maintains file attributes to manage the files in the File System. These attributes will be useful to control the files; for example, deleting the read-only files will prompt to get the confirmation to delete them. By using ATTRIB command from the command prompt, we can manage the file attributes of the file(s). Display file […]
Windows – COPY command – How to copy the files?
We can use COPY command to copy the files from one location to another location from the Windows Command Prompt. Through this Article we will learn how to use this command. Copy files from one location to another location COPY command expects source path and destination path to copy the files from source location to […]
Windows – CHKDSK command – How to check disk for errors?
Windows provides an important command CHKDSK to verify the disk and displays the status information about the disk. Through this article we are going to discuss about this command. Check disk using CHKDSK command This command is used to check the disk space and display the status information. From below, observe that, no parameters are […]