The command line is extremely useful on Windows. It’s fast, efficient, and saves you a lot of time once you figure out how to use it. For example, you can use the CLI to download apps directly instead ...

Windows Terminal is a consolidation of various command-line utilities such as Windows PowerShell, PowerShell, Command Prompt, etc. It lets you use more than one command-line utility at a time from a ...

Understanding your disk usage is an important thing to maintain the sanity of your Windows PCs. If you act without this insight, you may ultimately slow down your computer and make things puzzling ...

Windows Package Manager is a free and open source utility from Microsoft that allows you to download, install and manage apps from the command line in Windows 10 or Windows 11. First introduced in ...

Jeff Werner is a software engineer and has been writing this column since 2007. Question: Awhile back, you answered a DOSBox question for me (Geek Note: IGTM #723, May 30, 2021 and IGTM #779, Jun 26, ...

Command Prompt (or CMD) is Microsoft’s command-line interpreter for its Windows operating systems. It enables you to use commands for performing various operations on your computer — everything from ...

When I first started with Linux, I used to mostly rely on the graphical interface simply because it felt familiar and straightforward, especially since I am used to the Windows OS. However, after ...

The Command Prompt app has been around since December 1987, providing Windows users with a command-line interface from which to execute operating systems tasks, many of which are very useful. Due to ...

Windows Package Manager is a utility that lets you install Windows applications from a command prompt, much the way you can with most Linux distributions. Up until recently though, you could only ...

File creation is perhaps one of the most trivial tasks you perform on your computer almost every day. If you’re a Windows user, you probably do it via the graphical interface. Although this approach ...