Lifehacker reader Paladin writes in with some smart command line-fu for running quick commands using command line switches: Whenever I want to do a quick "ping google.com" to see whether my network ...

I am wondering if there is a better commandline interface/replacement out there and if I should bother. There are a few things that could be improved upon with cmd.exe and I suspect there is ...

Explore 280+ CMD commands with detailed descriptions across Windows versions, from Windows XP to 11 ...

The Windows Command Prompt certainly isn't the most friendly terminal around, and if you're coming from a UNIX background, it can feel like moving from a Ferrari to Fred Flintstone's car. Luckily, ...

Last month there were several articles about the news that Microsoft was making PowerShell the default command line in Windows 10, and also claiming that this would be the end of the venerable cmd.exe ...