About Command Prompt

WHAT IS COMMAND PROMPT ?

       Before graphical operating systems like Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac OS, users interacted with computers through a command prompt. Command prompts are text-based windows where users can type commands and receive text-based output. You don’t have any familiar mouse input options or graphical buttons, labels, or other widgets common in graphical forms.

How do I Start a Command Prompt?

On Windows computers you can start a command prompt from the Start Menu or press window key + R button then run option will be open and type cmd in the box and then Command Prompt open.

                                                       Windows Command Prompt                                                                                           

These are the some commands of command prompt which are given below :

• To Open the Notepad -

         Type "notepad.exe" in Command Prompt then Notepad will be open.

• To show the list of color -

         Type "color list" then list of color will be open in command prompt.

• To change the  letter of color in green -

         Type "color a" then letter of color will be show green.

• To open directory of drive -

         Type "dir" then directory will be open.

• To show the history of Doskey -

         Type "doskey /history" then history of dos key will be show.

• To Clear the screen of Command Prompt - 

          Type "cls" then screen will be clear.

• To Open the Task Manager - 

         Type "taskmgr" then Task Manager will be open.

• To Show User Account -

         Type "net user" then Name Of User Accounts will be display.

• To Show window IP Configuration - 

         Type "ipconfig" then IP configuration will be show.