Installing Linux distributions using WSL is simple enough. The official Microsoft Store has plenty of distros to choose from, ...

The Windows 11 Command Prompt is an application that allows you to launch programs and change settings by typing commands into a window. Compared to similar features in the Windows GUI interface, ...

That’s why I looked into something simple and came across a command-line task manager. It strips productivity down to the essentials—using the command-line to get things done through text-based ...

is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is launching a new command line app for Windows, dubbed Windows Terminal ...

Windows provides network administrators with a set of scripts and command line utilities to automate the installation and configuration of network printers. Network administrators can incorporate ...

Both the Windows and Linux operating systems include applications that would be useful for either operating system. Unfortunately, to use Linux programs in Windows, you would typically need to find ...

Command Prompt (or CMD) is Microsoft’s command-line interpreter for its Windows operating systems. It enables you to use commands for performing various operations on your computer — everything from ...

When you open a program on your computer by double-clicking its icon, you are activating that program's .exe file and, thus, launching the program. When you launch PowerPoint, for example, you're ...

Netstat, the TCP/IP networking utility, has a simple set of options and identifies a computer’s listening ports, along with incoming and outgoing network connections. This data can be very helpful if ...

Other than having to switch between “/” and “” when I’m moving from Unix systems to Windows systems, one of the most annoying (and seemingly pointless) differences is the way that these two competing ...