Configuring the Command Prompt to your liking ![]() ![]() If you are running the Command Prompt as an administrator, it will say “Administrator: Command Prompt” in the title bar. You can also tell the difference by looking at the title bar of the Command Prompt. If you ran the Command Prompt as an administrator, the path you are placed in would be C:\Windows\system32. %username% is whatever user you are logged in as. In Windows 7, by default, this places you in the C:\Users\%username% folder. Once you have the Command Prompt open, it will look something similar to Figure1:įigure 1 Example of Windows 7 Command Prompt Of course these are only a few of the ways you could open the program do whatever is fastest for you! If you need to run the Command Prompt as an Administrator, click Start > All Programs > Accessories, and right-click Command Prompt and select Run as Administrator. Depending on your version of Windows, the Run prompt might not show up in your Start menu, but you can easily access it by pressing the Windows R keys together. Another way to access it would be to click Start > Run, then type cmd.exe. For example, in Windows 7, you would click Start > All Programs > Accessories > Command Prompt. The Command Prompt can be opened in a variety of ways, which will depend on the version of Windows you are using. This article shows how to open the Command Prompt, configure it to your liking, and then explains some of the basics of how to use it. ![]() Just about anything than can be done in Windows can be done in the Command Prompt. The beauty of the Command Prompt is that you can navigate to and configure just about anything in text. However, the Command Prompt is a Windows entity. Some people refer to it as DOS because of its similarity to the DOS command-line. The Command Prompt is Microsoft’s version of a command-line interpreter or CLI.
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