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This will teach you how to do CMD. CMD is the original MS-DOS command prompt, the Shell. First, click START Then press Run... Type CMD or COMMAND This window should appear Step 1: EDIT: The worlds worst editor type EDIT Example.TXT this window should appear type whatever you want(I said hello ppl at INSTRUCTABLES) I said it was the worlds worst cause it is, it stinks only one size, one font, one color. At least no stoopid spell check................... But good for batch... Step 2: BATCH FILES ROCK Batch files, with a .BAT extension, are BATCHes of MS-DOS commands, executed togther. This is just basic, try  Advanced , BATCH MOVIES @echo off stops commands from being shown. echo sends whatever is after it to the screen echo hi ppl del deletes whatever file is after it, or del *.* deletes every file in the folder del example.txt cd changes to whatever folder is after it, or cd .. goes back one cd desktop format formats whatever disk is after...

1. Open Command Prompt in a Folder When you open the command prompt, it opens up in either User or System folder depending upon whether you ran it as administrator or not. Now the thing is, if you want to execute a file in any particular folder, you would have to use the change directory(cd) command to navigate to the folder which can be a problem if the directory is nested way too deep. To ease things you can open the folder in your  Windows Explorer , hold Shift key when you right-click in the folder and select  Run command window here   to directly open the CMD prompt with the path to that folder directly. 2. Enable QuickEdit for Easy Copy/Paste One thing I miss the most in Command Prompt is the ability to easily copy and paste text using the conventional Windows hotkeys. Normally, one would have to use the right-click context menu options to copy and paste text, but if you enable QuickEdit, you can do them using simple shortcuts. To enable the QuickEd...

In one of our previous tutorials, you've learned how to use basic commands in Command Prompt. Now it's time to take things to the next level and show how to use some of the more advanced commands. The first set of advanced commands contains useful network commands which facilitate the following: viewing information about your network devices and connections (assigned IP Address, the MAC of the network card), checking the availability of a certain host and displaying a wealth of networking and ports information. Retrieving Information About Your Network Connection To obtain detailed information about your network connection, use the  ipconfig  command. Type  ipconfig  in  Command Prompt  and press  Enter . As you can see below, a list with the network devices existing on your system and their IP addresses is displayed. You get also details such the default gateway, subnet mask or the state of the network adapter. With the  /all  swit...

DOS commands A partial list of the most common commands for MS-DOS follows below. APPEND Displays or sets the search path for data files. ASSIGN Further information:  Drive letter assignment The command redirects requests for disk operations on one drive to a different drive. It can also display drive assignments or reset all drive letters to their original assignments. The command is available in MS-DOS 5.00. ATTRIB Attrib  changes or views the attributes of one or more files. It defaults to displaying the attributes of all files in the current directory. The file attributes available include read-only, archive, system, and hidden attributes. The command has the capability to process whole folders and subfolders of files. BACKUP and RESTORE These are commands to  back up and restore  files from an external disk. These appeared in version 2, and continued to PC DOS 5 and MS-DOS 6 (PC DOS 7 had a deversioned check). In DOS 6, these were replace...