It s important to know that the commands in windows 10 8 7 vista and xp are called cmd commands or command prompt commands and the commands in windows 98 95 and ms dos are called dos commands.
Cmd windows 10.
The method you choose ultimately depends on your personal user habits.
Open command prompt from windows x power users menu press windows x to open the power users menu and then click command prompt or command prompt admin note.
The microsoft operating system provides several options to launch command prompt.
Choose command prompt from the folder group.
If you see powershell instead of command prompt on the power users menu that s a switch that came about with the creators update for windows 10.
For more information see cscript or wscript.
Another way to open command prompt in windows 10 is to look in its start menu folder.
Cmd is mostly used to automate tasks via scripts and batch files administrators use it to troubleshoot and solve certain kinds of windows issues.
We ve included all of them in this list to help show changes in commands from operating system to operating system.
Select the windows system folder from the list.
The command shell was the first shell built into windows to automate routine tasks like user account management or nightly backups with batch bat files.
Select the start button.
You can also open command prompt in a special mode with administrator privileges if required for certain system tasks.