Command Prompt Basics

Command Prompt is a command line interpreter which was only known method to interact with computers around 1960s before GUI (Graphical User Interface) was introduced.

In simple command  prompt  are text based windows where user can type command and receives text based-outputs.

Command Prompt is also known as cmd

Therese  Stowell developed the initial version of cmd for windows Nt

Later on further changes were done on that initial version and many commands were changed.

Talking about current day many people might be unfamiliar with the command prompt as we have a much easier GUI and it's simple. 

But for computer geeks or programmers it is a basic need because it gives a whole control over the programs.    

We often have heard about the DOS when buying a new pc having a tag "free dos ". But generally most of us misunderstand it with cmd. Command prompt can run most of the DOS commands but it is not DOS.

Use of Command Prompt

Command prompt is used for executing batch files, perform advance administrative functions and troubleshoot and solve certain kind of windows issues.

Also we can do much more with command prompt. We have the whole access to disk if you have knowledge to the commands.

Sometimes we face such problems when our GUI goes down or we want to access our disk from recovery options present in windows 7 or 8.1. You may use cmd for other purpose.

This article is just for beginners. And here I will introduce about the basic of the cmd. 
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How to Access Command Prompt

First of all if you have windows 7 you can find command prompt in accessories. In windows 8 you can simply type cmd at run.

In windows 7 or 8 we face simply a problem in stretching the cmd window to full screen.

We can customize the cmd with various colours and also can change the font size too. 

I hope you have got some basic knowledge of CMD from this article and connected other articles. Please respond if you have further questions or some other suggestions.