The first thing you'll want to do is Start, Run, cmd.exe, then right click the window menu and choose properties. Be sure to enable the following quality of life improvements:

* Options | Command History | Buffer Size | 500
* Options | Command History | Discard Old Duplicates | True
* Options | Edit Options | QuickEdit Mode | True
* Layout | Screen buffer size | Height | 999
* Layout | Window size | Height | 50

Now we've got some room to actually see stuff! QuickEdit mode enables copying from the command prompt by intuitively dragging and right clicking with the mouse. Furthermore, you can paste what's in the clipboard to the command line by right clicking with nothing selected.

And of course, set the font and colors to taste. I use green-screen style colors (background 0 55 0, foreground 0 255 0) with Lucida Console as pictured above. But if you prefer Comic Sans here, be my guest! When exiting this dialog, you'll be prompted to save. Make sure you select "Save properties for future windows with same title" so all future command prompts will benefit from these improved settings.

There are also a few helpful keyboard shortcuts that aren't always widely known:

* Pressing arrow up selects a previous command from your command history; similarly, arrow down selects the next command.
* Pressing F7 pops up your command history list.
* You can drag n' drop files or folders from an explorer window into a command prompt; this inserts the quoted path as if you had manually pasted it.
* Tab completion is fully supported; type edit *.ini then hit TAB to iterate through all matches. Use SHIFT+TAB to move to the previous match. This works for partial filenames as you would expect, and in all commands.
* Tired of the typical "c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe" window title? Change it using the TITLE command.

Answered by Hemant Singh , an ibibo Master, at 1:50 PM on August 01, 2008

The first thing you'll want to do is Start, Run, cmd.exe, then right click the window menu and choose properties. Be sure to enable the following quality of life improvements:

* Options | Command History | Buffer Size | 500
* Options | Command History | Discard Old Duplicates | True
* Options | Edit Options | QuickEdit Mode | True
* Layout | Screen buffer size | Height | 999
* Layout | Window size | Height | 50

Now we've got some room to actually see stuff! QuickEdit mode enables copying from the command prompt by intuitively dragging and right clicking with the mouse. Furthermore, you can paste what's in the clipboard to the command line by right clicking with nothing selected.

And of course, set the font and colors to taste. I use green-screen style colors (background 0 55 0, foreground 0 255 0) with Lucida Console as pictured above. But if you prefer Comic Sans here, be my guest! When exiting this dialog, you'll be prompted to save. Make sure you select "Save properties for future windows with same title" so all future command prompts will benefit from these improved settings.

There are also a few helpful keyboard shortcuts that aren't always widely known:

* Pressing arrow up selects a previous command from your command history; similarly, arrow down selects the next command.
* Pressing F7 pops up your command history list.
* You can drag n' drop files or folders from an explorer window into a command prompt; this inserts the quoted path as if you had manually pasted it.
* Tab completion is fully supported; type edit *.ini then hit TAB to iterate through all matches. Use SHIFT+TAB to move to the previous match. This works for partial filenames as you would expect, and in all commands.
* Tired of the typical "c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe" window title? Change it using the TITLE command.

Answered by Ashish Yadav , an ibibo Wizard, at 7:48 PM on July 24, 2008

well, The first thing you'll want to do is Start, Run, cmd.exe, then right click the window menu and choose properties. Be sure to enable the following quality of life improvements:

* Options | Command History | Buffer Size | 500
* Options | Command History | Discard Old Duplicates | True
* Options | Edit Options | QuickEdit Mode | True
* Layout | Screen buffer size | Height | 999
* Layout | Window size | Height | 50

Now we've got some room to actually see stuff! QuickEdit mode enables copying from the command prompt by intuitively dragging and right clicking with the mouse. Furthermore, you can paste what's in the clipboard to the command line by right clicking with nothing selected.

And of course, set the font and colors to taste. I use green-screen style colors (background 0 55 0, foreground 0 255 0) with Lucida Console as pictured above. But if you prefer Comic Sans here, be my guest! When exiting this dialog, you'll be prompted to save. Make sure you select "Save properties for future windows with same title" so all future command prompts will benefit from these improved settings.

There are also a few helpful keyboard shortcuts that aren't always widely known:

* Pressing arrow up selects a previous command from your command history; similarly, arrow down selects the next command.
* Pressing F7 pops up your command history list.
* You can drag n' drop files or folders from an explorer window into a command prompt; this inserts the quoted path as if you had manually pasted it.
* Tab completion is fully supported; type edit *.ini then hit TAB to iterate through all matches. Use SHIFT+TAB to move to the previous match. This works for partial filenames as you would expect, and in all commands.
* Tired of the typical "c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe" window title? Change it using the TITLE command.

Answered by R.P. Singh , an ibibo Master, at 6:19 PM on July 24, 2008

well, The first thing you'll want to do is Start, Run, cmd.exe, then right click the window menu and choose properties. Be sure to enable the following quality of life improvements:

* Options | Command History | Buffer Size | 500
* Options | Command History | Discard Old Duplicates | True
* Options | Edit Options | QuickEdit Mode | True
* Layout | Screen buffer size | Height | 999
* Layout | Window size | Height | 50

Now we've got some room to actually see stuff! QuickEdit mode enables copying from the command prompt by intuitively dragging and right clicking with the mouse. Furthermore, you can paste what's in the clipboard to the command line by right clicking with nothing selected.

And of course, set the font and colors to taste. I use green-screen style colors (background 0 55 0, foreground 0 255 0) with Lucida Console as pictured above. But if you prefer Comic Sans here, be my guest! When exiting this dialog, you'll be prompted to save. Make sure you select "Save properties for future windows with same title" so all future command prompts will benefit from these improved settings.

There are also a few helpful keyboard shortcuts that aren't always widely known:

* Pressing arrow up selects a previous command from your command history; similarly, arrow down selects the next command.
* Pressing F7 pops up your command history list.
* You can drag n' drop files or folders from an explorer window into a command prompt; this inserts the quoted path as if you had manually pasted it.
* Tab completion is fully supported; type edit *.ini then hit TAB to iterate through all matches. Use SHIFT+TAB to move to the previous match. This works for partial filenames as you would expect, and in all commands.
* Tired of the typical "c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe" window title? Change it using the TITLE command.

Answered by Rocky , an ibibo Master, at 12:20 PM on July 22, 2008

well, The first thing you'll want to do is Start, Run, cmd.exe, then right click the window menu and choose properties. Be sure to enable the following quality of life improvements:

* Options | Command History | Buffer Size | 500
* Options | Command History | Discard Old Duplicates | True
* Options | Edit Options | QuickEdit Mode | True
* Layout | Screen buffer size | Height | 999
* Layout | Window size | Height | 50

Now we've got some room to actually see stuff! QuickEdit mode enables copying from the command prompt by intuitively dragging and right clicking with the mouse. Furthermore, you can paste what's in the clipboard to the command line by right clicking with nothing selected.

And of course, set the font and colors to taste. I use green-screen style colors (background 0 55 0, foreground 0 255 0) with Lucida Console as pictured above. But if you prefer Comic Sans here, be my guest! When exiting this dialog, you'll be prompted to save. Make sure you select "Save properties for future windows with same title" so all future command prompts will benefit from these improved settings.

There are also a few helpful keyboard shortcuts that aren't always widely known:

* Pressing arrow up selects a previous command from your command history; similarly, arrow down selects the next command.
* Pressing F7 pops up your command history list.
* You can drag n' drop files or folders from an explorer window into a command prompt; this inserts the quoted path as if you had manually pasted it.
* Tab completion is fully supported; type edit *.ini then hit TAB to iterate through all matches. Use SHIFT+TAB to move to the previous match. This works for partial filenames as you would expect, and in all commands.
* Tired of the typical "c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe" window title? Change it using the TITLE command.

Answered by Romi , an ibibo Master, at 11:49 AM on July 16, 2008

The first thing you'll want to do is Start, Run, cmd.exe, then right click the window menu and choose properties. Be sure to enable the following quality of life improvements:

* Options | Command History | Buffer Size | 500
* Options | Command History | Discard Old Duplicates | True
* Options | Edit Options | QuickEdit Mode | True
* Layout | Screen buffer size | Height | 999
* Layout | Window size | Height | 50

Now we've got some room to actually see stuff! QuickEdit mode enables copying from the command prompt by intuitively dragging and right clicking with the mouse. Furthermore, you can paste what's in the clipboard to the command line by right clicking with nothing selected.

And of course, set the font and colors to taste. I use green-screen style colors (background 0 55 0, foreground 0 255 0) with Lucida Console as pictured above. But if you prefer Comic Sans here, be my guest! When exiting this dialog, you'll be prompted to save. Make sure you select "Save properties for future windows with same title" so all future command prompts will benefit from these improved settings.

Answered by Yash , an ibibo Master, at 8:28 AM on July 16, 2008

The first thing you'll want to do is Start, Run, cmd.exe, then right click the window menu and choose properties. Be sure to enable the following quality of life improvements:

* Options | Command History | Buffer Size | 500
* Options | Command History | Discard Old Duplicates | True
* Options | Edit Options | QuickEdit Mode | True
* Layout | Screen buffer size | Height | 999
* Layout | Window size | Height | 50

Now we've got some room to actually see stuff! QuickEdit mode enables copying from the command prompt by intuitively dragging and right clicking with the mouse. Furthermore, you can paste what's in the clipboard to the command line by right clicking with nothing selected.

And of course, set the font and colors to taste. I use green-screen style colors (background 0 55 0, foreground 0 255 0) with Lucida Console as pictured above. But if you prefer Comic Sans here, be my guest! When exiting this dialog, you'll be prompted to save. Make sure you select "Save properties for future windows with same title" so all future command prompts will benefit from these improved settings.

There are also a few helpful keyboard shortcuts that aren't always widely known:

* Pressing arrow up selects a previous command from your command history; similarly, arrow down selects the next command.
* Pressing F7 pops up your command history list.
* You can drag n' drop files or folders from an explorer window into a command prompt; this inserts the quoted path as if you had manually pasted it.
* Tab completion is fully supported; type edit *.ini then hit TAB to iterate through all matches. Use SHIFT+TAB to move to the previous match. This works for partial filenames as you would expect, and in all commands.
* Tired of the typical "c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe" window title? Change it using the TITLE command.

Answered by Sharad Singh , an ibibo Master, at 6:17 PM on July 14, 2008

You should know the DOS commands in order to work in command prompt.

To get the command prompt. Type CMD in run Window.

some of the DOS commands are:
Dir - To see the directory
CD - To change the directory
RD - To remove empty directory
MD - To create a directory
Attrib - to set/see the attributes of a file/directory

Answered by Madhurima , an ibibo Master, at 1:54 PM on July 14, 2008

The first thing you'll want to do is Start, Run, cmd.exe, then right click the window menu and choose properties. Be sure to enable the following quality of life improvements:

* Options | Command History | Buffer Size | 500
* Options | Command History | Discard Old Duplicates | True
* Options | Edit Options | QuickEdit Mode | True
* Layout | Screen buffer size | Height | 999
* Layout | Window size | Height | 50

Now we've got some room to actually see stuff! QuickEdit mode enables copying from the command prompt by intuitively dragging and right clicking with the mouse. Furthermore, you can paste what's in the clipboard to the command line by right clicking with nothing selected.

And of course, set the font and colors to taste. I use green-screen style colors (background 0 55 0, foreground 0 255 0) with Lucida Console as pictured above. But if you prefer Comic Sans here, be my guest! When exiting this dialog, you'll be prompted to save. Make sure you select "Save properties for future windows with same title" so all future command prompts will benefit from these improved settings.

There are also a few helpful keyboard shortcuts that aren't always widely known:

* Pressing arrow up selects a previous command from your command history; similarly, arrow down selects the next command.
* Pressing F7 pops up your command history list.
* You can drag n' drop files or folders from an explorer window into a command prompt; this inserts the quoted path as if you had manually pasted it.
* Tab completion is fully supported; type edit *.ini then hit TAB to iterate through all matches. Use SHIFT+TAB to move to the previous match. This works for partial filenames as you would expect, and in all commands.
* Tired of the typical "c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe" window title? Change it using the TITLE command.

Answered by Nagendra , an ibibo Master, at 6:13 PM on July 11, 2008

You should know the DOS commands in order to work in command prompt.

To get the command prompt. Type CMD in run Window.

some of the DOS commands are:
Dir - To see the directory
CD - To change the directory
RD - To remove empty directory
MD - To create a directory
Attrib - to set/see the attributes of a file/directory

Answered by Ni .. , an ibibo Master, at 5:12 PM on July 11, 2008