In the Windows system, any version provides a command line call. With it, you can get quick access to any folder on your computer, quickly perform the task. Experienced users often use the command line, as it is as quickly and convenient as possible. In this article you will learn how to open it and what it is needed for.
How to call a command line in windows
Universal method for all versions of the Windows operating system - find the desired application in the search for programs. The search remains in all versions until today: both in Windows XP and Vista and in Windows 10. Not the fastest option, but so you can call a string on any computers.
The search string can be quickly called, simultaneously holding a combination of Win + R or Win + K in the Russian layout on the keyboard.
A small window will immediately appear on the screen with the name "Run" - this is the search string of Windows. Enter only three letters "CMD", click "OK".
Ready. You opened the Windows command prompt.
If for any reason you can't open the search string, you can always use the start. Click on the Start menu and find the line at the bottom.
Enter the name "CMD" and click on the found file. Two of these methods work according to the same principle, simply in the first you call the search string with a special combination, and in the second - find it in the "Start" menu. The CMD command calls the command line.
How to open yourself command line in windows 10
In the WINDOVS version 10 has changed much, now the command line can be opened directly from the directory. Being in the computer folder, just click on the right mouse button.
- Right with your mouse button on any empty place in the open folder;
- Find and select "Command Line" with signature "(Administrator)".
This is one of the most convenient and fast ways to get into the command line in the Windows version 10 version. If you do not have such a row in the menu, then enable this option in the control panel.
- Right click on your desktop;
- Select "Personalization";
- In the window that opens, select the "Taskbar" section;
- Remove the checkbox near the words "Replace the command line with a shell from Windows Power Shell."
Now the command line display will work correctly.
How to call the command line in windows 8
In the eighth versions of the Windows operating system, you can open the command line and the first way, and the second. Here the search for the "Start" menu remains here, and select a command stitching point by pressing the right click of the mouse.
Try to get into it through the click of PCM, since this method is the fastest.
How to use the command line
For users who caught the dawn of the era of computers, the use of the command line will seem understandable and simple, because initially the PC did not have a graphical interface and a mouse - the aircraft had to be entered through the keys and here such a command line in the DOS environment.
If you say a simple language, you can do everything over the command line, but it is much longer and more difficult than clicking the mouse.
- To go to any directory, enter the "CD path to the folder" command. After cutting a CD, a space is put. The path you can remember by heart, knowing the name of most of your personal folders.
- Another important advice: To open the command line while booting the system, press F8, and to start the recovery, write to the X Row: \\ Windows \\ System32 \\ Restore \\ rstrui.exe.