Customizing the Command Prompt You can customize the Windows Command Prompt to make it just about any way you want it. We feature quite a few tips that require you to use the command prompt and we recently had a reader ask if there was a way to make the font larger. Great question! So, here’s… Read More »
Show Command Prompt Instead of PowerShell on the Win-X Menu Microsoft, in their infinite wisdom, decided that everyone who uses Windows 10 is geeky and therefore would much rather have PowerShell on their Windows 10 “power menu” than Command Prompt. Well, PowerShell is very powerful and there’s a library of scriptlets you can use with it,… Read More »
Take Command of the Command Prompt While this tip was written for Windows 10, you can also change the command prompt colors and fonts in Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 too. We have a lot of tips that require you to open a command prompt. And when you do, most of you see a black box with small… Read More »
Windows 10 Commands Just For the Geek In You The Windows Run Dialog is still useful tool even in Windows 10 where it has largely been supplanted by taskbar search. But some of these more “geeky” commands have to be run from a Windows run box… some but not all. Let’s open a Run dialog (or Run box… Read More »
Replace PowerShell with Command Prompt Microsoft, in their infinite wisdom, decided that everyone who uses Windows 10 is a PowerShell geek and therefore would much rather have PowerShell on their Windows 10 “power menu” than Command Prompt. Well, PowerShell is powerful and very nice and there’s a whole library of cmdlets you can use with it, but when… Read More »
How to Switch Between Command Prompt and PowerShell on the Win+X Menu This tip applies to Windows 10 Creators Update (Version 1703) and newer versions of Windows 10 Most of the time when we feature a tip that requires running a command, we tell you to open Command Prompt or Command Prompt (Admin). In the Creators Update, some… Read More »