Latest articles tagged “cmd”

In this quick guide, we'll show you the fastest way to open a CMD or PowerShell at any folder location, using Microsoft's File Explorer built into Windows 10. To make things even faster, we'll do this using keyboard shortcuts for the main steps. ... Read more

In this guide we explain how to use the System File Checker (SFC) command-line utility in to repair corrupt, damaged, modified, and missing system files in Windows 10. ... Read more

Having a USB recovery drive can be a life saver when your Windows installation decides to stop working. These are really easy to create, and simply requires that you have a big enough USB drive to install the recovery software. ... Read more

When filled with too many files, the Empty Recycle Bin command doesn't always succeeds in clearing the entire Recycle Bin. Here are 2 methods for fixing this problem and emptying the Recycle Bin - both were tested and they work in Windows 8 and 10. ... Read more

Perhaps one of the most exciting changes coming in Windows 10, is the new and improved command prompt. There are some changes that have been much needed for quite a while now, which we are finally getting to try out in the technical preview of W10. ... Read more

If you are having trouble deleting a certain file or folder from your computer by traditional means, you may have better luck attempting to remove it via the Command Prompt utility. ... Read more

We explained before what an elevated command prompt is and how to open one in several ways under Windows 8 or 10. In this tutorial we'll show you how to create a desktop shortcut to an elevated command prompt and pin it to taskbar or start screen. ... Read more

Also called elevated mode, an elevated command prompt is a command line mode introduced in Windows starting with Vista. It's available in Windows 7, 8, 8.1, and 10 as well. What it does is allows an user to execute commands with admin privileges. ... Read more