MS-DOS or Microsoft Disk Operating System was the dominant operating system for Personal Computer throughout the 80s. MS-DOS is a non-graphical command line operating system. MS-DOS allows the user to ...

This is a new machine on which XP Pro was installed. During installation only the basic options were chosen.<BR>After installation, when I open a MS-DOS prompt, the file and folder names have a ...

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 ...

The Config.sys is the main configuration file used by OS/2, MS-DOS and other operating systems. Config.sys commands loads programs into the memory and sets ups the memory management of the system. The ...

Sometimes it can be useful to list the contents of one or more directories in a text file, for example by creating a file catalog. Windows does not allow you to perform this operation from File ...

It sure looked like Microsoft was putting MS-DOS out to pasture. Now it’s saying that the MS-DOS command prompt cmd will continue to live on. According to a Microsoft spokesperson, “Microsoft is not ...

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

Windows 11 and Windows 10 ships with Windows PowerShell out of the box. Along with it, came the Command Prompt which was a successor to MS-DOS Command line. Often the presence of two command-line ...

Before Microsoft had Office, before it had Windows, it had an operating system called MS DOS. MS DOS was a command-line operating system, meaning you had to memorize a lot of commands and type them ...