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Command Prompt, also known as cmd.exe or cmd, is the default command-line interpreter for the OS/2, [1] eComStation, ArcaOS, Microsoft Windows (Windows NT family and Windows CE family), and ReactOS [2] operating systems.
Some commands are built into the command interpreter; others exist as external commands on disk. Over multiple generations, commands were added for additional functions. In Microsoft Windows, a command prompt window that uses many of the same commands, cmd.exe, can still be used.
In modern versions of Microsoft Windows, changing the disk label requires elevated permissions. [5] The Windows dir command displays the volume label and serial number (if it has one) as part of the directory listing. In Unix and other Unix-like operating systems, the name of the equivalent command differs from file system to file system.
The category Windows commands deals with articles related to internal and external commands supported by members of the Windows family of operating systems including Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 98 SE and Windows ME as well as the NT family. Commands which are specific to DOS must be listed in Category:DOS commands (or its sub-categories ...
The command is available for various operating systems including DOS, Microware OS-9, [1] IBM OS/2, [2] Microsoft Windows [3] and ReactOS. [4] It is analogous to the Unix rm command and to the Stratus OpenVOS delete_file and delete_dircommands. [5] DEC RT-11, [6] OS/8, [7] RSX-11, [8] and OpenVMS [9] also provide the delete command which can be ...
On some systems, special tokens in the definition of the prompt can be used to cause external programs to be called by the command-line interpreter while displaying the prompt. In DOS' COMMAND.COM and in Windows NT's cmd.exe users can modify the prompt by issuing a PROMPT command or by directly changing the value of the corresponding %PROMPT ...
In Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, Windows 11, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, and Windows Server 2016, the 30-day grace period has been removed. If the operating system is not activated, there is a watermark showing the edition of Windows or a message telling the user to activate Windows on desktop.
In computing, CLS (for clear screen) is a command used by the command-line interpreters COMMAND.COM and cmd.exe on DOS, Digital Research FlexOS, [1] IBM OS/2, [2] Microsoft Windows [3] and ReactOS operating systems to clear the screen or console window of commands and any output generated by them. It does not clear the user's history of ...