This is very odd, have a new Win 7 laptop and when I go to launch cmd I will normally use CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER and then I get a UAC prompt to launch as admin. Well on this laptop it won't work. Works on ...

The program is a very small (9 KBs) executable file and has no GUI. It is super simple to use. All you need to do is download it and copy it to the folder where you want to start a CMD window with ...

A Command Prompt allows you to run programs, manipulate Windows settings, and access files by typing in commands that you wish to execute. To start a Command Prompt you simply need to type cmd.exe in ...

Are there any good cmd.exe replacement tools? I've been google searching but it hasn't really come up with anything that I'm looking for. Really all I would like is to have a cmd.exe with tabs. Color ...

Editor’s note: After this article was published, Microsoft issued a statement clarifying that cmd.exe will not be going away after all. Read Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols’ follow-up column. My very first ...