Command Prompt commands let you manage your computer, move files, start apps, and more just by typing.

Command Prompt essential commands for Windows 11 This list includes the most basic commands that any user should know. The list isn't arranged in any specific order.

For instance, Command Prompt commands enable you to copy data to another folder, format a whole disk, back up files, send messages to other computers, restart your system, and more.

From the command line, type "backup.bat" and the batch file will run your specified commands: first, copying all files from that directory, then renaming them to remove the extensions.

Over time, the need to fire up the Command Prompt has waned—but a handful of its commands remain easier to use than Windows 10's graphical equivalents.

Command Prompt was a Microsoft-supplied command line interpreter and is called MS-DOS Prompt on Windows 9x systems. (It has since been replaced by PowerShell. This article presents a command prompt ...