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Itsacon · 09-10-2006, 12:20 AM

Actually, CMD is much more powerful than COMMAND (the old MS-DOS shell). Firstly, you can enable things like tab-completion (default under WinXP, requires registry trick or TweakUI for older NT variants), and you have a lot of new (powerful) commandos. I do nearly everything through CMD, since it's generally much quicker than through Windows Explorer.

Have a look here for a lot of tricks and tips. It's mostly batch file oriented, but most things you can do in a batch file are also possible directly from the command line.

09-10-2006, 12:20 AM	#3 (permalink)
Itsacon Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Sector ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha Posts: 34	Re: Cmd Actually, CMD is much more powerful than COMMAND (the old MS-DOS shell). Firstly, you can enable things like tab-completion (default under WinXP, requires registry trick or TweakUI for older NT variants), and you have a lot of new (powerful) commandos. I do nearly everything through CMD, since it's generally much quicker than through Windows Explorer. Have a look here for a lot of tricks and tips. It's mostly batch file oriented, but most things you can do in a batch file are also possible directly from the command line. __________________ "The biggest problem encountered while trying to design a system that was completely foolproof, was, that people tended to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." ---Douglas Adams