Thursday, 11th March 2010.

Beginners’ Commands on Windows Command Prompt.

Written on Monday, 2nd November 2009 by Neeta

Present generation has been born and brought up on Windows, Mac and Linux GUI. Most of us are not aware of even the basic MS-DOS commands. But these are words which are required to be typed in exactly the way they are to get the response. This is the only way in which one communicate with your computer.

But why should we be aware of these commands when we have GUI which does all the work for us. To answer this question, let us suppose you Windows OS has crashed and then the only way you can still communicate with your computer is though command line. If you are a PC or a Mac user and are not in to hard core computer programming I would say you don’t need a full or advanced course in MS-DOS or command line commands but definitely you should be aware of the basics so that you can help yourself in crisis.

From your Windows start option, you can choose run command to open command prompt. Once you press OK button a new windows displaying command prompt will open up. This is here you can type in your commands and get the results first hand.

cd

This command is used to change directories.

Help

There is an option available with MS DOS which lets you display all the important commands just by typing help. Then if you are not sure about any command just type in that command followed by /?, you will have information about that command.

Dir

Dir stands for Directory command. Dir/P will display the directory contents in three columns. Dir/w will display the content in list form and Dir/p will display the directory content in breaks.

mkdir and rmdir

These two commands will create and romove directories for you.

Del

Del command is used to delete a file and directory

Ipconfig

ipconfig command is used to reveal network data and IP address or MAC address of your computer.

Systeminfo

The command to retrieve extensive information about your system, including Windows serial number, computer model, and available RAM.

Ping

Ping is the most popular command which is used to find out status of network connectivity. If one wants to hold the screen for indefinite duration one can type ping followed by switch -t.

You can also find here the ways and methods to change your windows password here.

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