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 ...

The command shell in the Windows operating system makes use of the command interpreter, Cmd.exe. It loads applications, manages the flow of information between applications and translates user input ...

The Command Prompt or Console has been one of the best tools ever. It was built before GUIs and is way more flexible and usable. There are a few things that can only be performed from the console and ...

As a Windows user, you have likely encountered and used Command Prompt before, perhaps not fully understanding its potential. As an effective command-line interface providing access to system files ...

CMD has been around for decades, but PowerShell has become a more efficient tool for managing Microsoft products. The PowerShell cmdlets in this ebook will enable you to knock out tasks you used to ...

So I'm trying to find my uptime and after searching here and google, I find the command "systeminfo", which is supposeldy to tell you system stats and goodies like that. But for some reason, when I ...