Windows 8.1 brought a few changes to the handy Win+X menu, including a new Shut Down option and the addition of PowerShell shortcuts. If you're more of a command prompt user, though, you can bring the ...
In 2006, Windows Script Host (WSH) and the Command Prompt shell got a new sibling when Microsoft released a completely new environment called Windows PowerShell. PowerShell has some similarities to ...
The Windows command prompt has long been a convenient way to run certain commands or command strings that you can't easily or necessarily run within Windows itself. That tradition is still alive and ...
If you've ever opened PowerShell, Command Prompt, or Windows Terminal and felt underwhelmed by how plain and unhelpful your prompt looks, you're not alone. The default command-line experience on ...
Hints of what’s to come in next spring’s Windows 10 Creators Update just keep on coming. Microsoft recently released Windows 10 Insider Preview build 14971, which integrates Paint 3D, turns your ...
Wow, adopting features from X11 xterm circa 1984! It's about freaking time! It does fix many of my pain points in the terminal itself. But still not good enough. Probably sticks you with a poor ...
Windows PowerShell has a built-in History feature that remembers all the commands you executed when using it. While it should remember the History of the active session, I see that it retains more ...
You can use PowerShell scripts to automate various tasks in Windows and other operating systems, like organizing data, searching for files or fetching data from the Internet. You can't actually run ...
Several users have reported that Command Prompt keeps crashing on Windows systems. As users open the Command Prompt window, it opens and closes immediately. Damaged or missing system files could cause ...