The command line is extremely useful on Windows. It’s fast, efficient, and saves you a lot of time once you figure out how to use it. For example, you can use the CLI to download apps directly instead ...

Windows Terminal is a consolidation of various command-line utilities such as Windows PowerShell, PowerShell, Command Prompt, etc. It lets you use more than one command-line utility at a time from a ...

Jeff Werner is a software engineer and has been writing this column since 2007. Question: Awhile back, you answered a DOSBox question for me (Geek Note: IGTM #723, May 30, 2021 and IGTM #779, Jun 26, ...

Put it back to sleep. Reason: drive is needed less than 1 hour every day; no point in incurring the wear, tear and power expenditure by having it spin all the time. Related question: Assuming the ...

A number of improvements and extra features can be noticed in this tiny application. There are five default shortcuts to the programs that we generally open using run commands. Those five shortcuts ...

I'm trying to find a command line utility that will allow me to change Partition ID/Type within a batch script under Windows XP.<BR><BR>For example: I have a disk with two formatted NTFS partitions, ...

Windows provides network administrators with a set of scripts and command line utilities to automate the installation and configuration of network printers. Network administrators can incorporate ...

Improve the performance of XP and Vista--at least a little bit--by running its built-in disk defragmenter with your choice of command switches. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology ...

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 ...