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  2. Run command - Wikipedia

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    The Multics shell includes a run command to run a command in an isolated environment. [1] The DEC TOPS-10 [2] and TOPS-20 [3] Command Processor included a RUN command for running executable programs. In the BASIC programming language, RUN is used to start program execution from direct mode, or to start an overlay program from a loader program.

  3. start (command) - Wikipedia

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    In computing, start is a command of the IBM OS/2, [1] Microsoft Windows [2] and ReactOS [3] command-line interpreter cmd.exe [4] (and some versions of COMMAND.COM) to start programs or batch files or to open files or directories using the default program. start is not available as a standalone program. The underlying Win32 API is ShellExecute ...

  4. List of DOS commands - Wikipedia

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    The command interpreter for DOS runs when no application programs are running. When an application exits, if the transient portion of the command interpreter in memory was overwritten, DOS will reload it from disk. Some commands are internal—built into COMMAND.COM; others are external commands stored on disk.

  5. Booting - Wikipedia

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    This memory location typically contains a jump instruction that transfers execution to the location of the firmware (UEFI or BIOS) start-up program. This program runs a power-on self-test (POST) to check and initialize required devices such as main memory , the PCI bus and the PCI devices (including running embedded Option ROMs).

  6. Booting process of Windows - Wikipedia

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    When a user is logging on to Windows, the startup sound is played, the shell (usually EXPLORER.EXE) is loaded from the [boot] section of the SYSTEM.INI file, and startup items are loaded. In all versions of Windows 9x except ME, it is also possible to load Windows by booting to a DOS prompt and typing "win".

  7. Task Manager (Windows) - Wikipedia

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    Task Manager, previously known as Windows Task Manager, is a task manager, system monitor, and startup manager included with Microsoft Windows systems. It provides information about computer performance and running software, including names of running processes, CPU and GPU load, commit charge, I/O details, logged-in users, and Windows services.

  8. Entry point - Wikipedia

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    In most of today's popular programming languages and operating systems, a computer program usually only has a single entry point.. In C, C++, D, Zig, Rust and Kotlin programs this is a function named main; in Java it is a static method named main (although the class must be specified at the invocation time), and in C# it is a static method named Main.

  9. List of DOS system files - Wikipedia

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    Command-line interpreter (Shell): COMMAND.COM: This is the command interpreter. User configuration files: AUTOEXEC.BAT: This is run by the default shell (usually COMMAND.COM) to execute commands at startup. CONFIG.SYS: This contains statements to configure DOS and load device drivers. Standard DOS utility programs: