Many of you use the command prompt to run commands such as IPCONFIG, CHKDSK \/F, SFC \/SCANNOW, RSTRUI, NETPLWIZ and all the other commands we\u2019ve mentioned in our newsletters over the years. If you don\u2019t know what any of those are, don\u2019t worry about it \u2013 some people are more geeky than others.<\/p>\n
If you use the Command Prompt frequently, you may be interested in using Windows PowerShell \u2013 but you need to be super geeky, I tells ya! Windows PowerShell is like the Command Prompt on steroids. You can run all the normal commands, such as those above in PowerShell (if you like), but PowerShell is a lot more powerful if you use it with CMDLETS (Pronounced Command Lets). We are not going to get into Cmdlets here, you\u2019re already yawning. For the super geeky among you you can see a list of PowerShell Cmdlets here<\/a>. And if you want a detailed overview of Windows PowerShell, you\u2019ll love this<\/a>. Or if you love DIY you can get a list of Cmdlets by using Cmdlets \u00a0\u2013 read this article<\/a>.<\/p>\n Now we know most of you aren\u2019t going to start using Cmdlets, but some of you will, and you will need to use PowerShell to run them because while you can run common Windows Command Prompt\u00a0commands in Windows PowerShell, you can\u2019t run Windows PowerShell Cmdlets in a Windows Command Prompt. Capiche?<\/p>\n OK. Moving on. Windows 10 has a right-click menu (when you right-click the Start button, you\u2019ll see it). It\u2019s sometimes called the power users\u2019 menu. You can also access this menu by using the Windows Key + X combination.<\/p>\n By default, Windows 10\u2019s right-click (power) menu looks like this. It has many items that you\u2019ll use a lot like Power Options, Task Manger (although there are lots of other ways to open Task Manager), Control Panel, etc. You\u2019ll note surrounded in a pink rectangle (EB insisted on pink) are \u201cCommand Prompt\u201d and \u201cCommand Prompt (admin)\u201d. See<\/p>\n But let\u2019s say you\u2019re like EB and fancy yourself a power user and the power menu if for 98-pound weaklings and you want to kick it up a notch. Well, we are here to tell you, it\u2019s easy to kick it up a notch by replacing the Command Prompt and Command Prompt (admin) with Windows PowerShell and Windows PowerShell (admin).<\/p>\n How do you do it? Right click on your taskbar and choose \u201cProperties\u201d. When \u201cProperties\u201d opens, click the \u201cNavigation\u201d tab at the top and tick the box next to \u201cReplace Command Prompt with Windows PowerShell in the menu when I right-click the lower-left corner or press Windows Key+X\u201d<\/p>\n See?<\/p>\n (Above) Right-click menu with Windows PowerShell and Windows PowerShell (admin) instead of Command Prompt and Command Prompt (admin).<\/p>\n (Above) Ye olde Windows Command prompt<\/p>\n (Above) The Windows PowerShell.<\/p>\n (Below) Running a simple Cmdlet \u201cGet-NetIPAddress\u201d \u00a0in Windows Power Shell:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n There you go: Windows Command Prompt vs. Windows Powershell. Which wins? It\u2019s up to you.<\/p>\n Now EB wants me to crawl back in my shell, so I will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Command Prompt or Windows PowerShell? This tip was written for Windows 10 versions prior to Creators Update. If you’re using Windows 10 Creators Update or newer, see our updated post here. Many of you use the command prompt to run commands such as IPCONFIG, CHKDSK \/F, SFC \/SCANNOW, RSTRUI, NETPLWIZ and all the other commands we\u2019ve mentioned in\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12356"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12356"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13342,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12356\/revisions\/13342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2016\/powershell-c.png\")
\n(Above) The default Windows 10 Right click or Power menu.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2016\/power-menu-1.png\")
\n(Above) The dialog that allows you to change from Command Prompt to PowerShell on the right-click menu. Hey look, ma! We did it!<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2016\/powershell-x.png\")
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