A few tips for working with the Windows command line

Many users just love the command line in the "unix" operating system. There she called Terminal'om or "Shell". In Windows also has a command line, and let not such an advanced and functional, but it allows to do some system settings are not available in the graphical version.

Valker's blog has published some tips for working with the command lineThat turn it into a useful tool:

1. To adjust the color of the text box and use the «COLOR» command.
2. To set the title - «TITLE».
3. By pressing It appears the command history.
4. Call System menu > Properties > Set the «Quick Edit Mode». You can now drag and drop files and directory names in the cmd.exe window with the mouse (drag'n'drop).
5. use the to autocomplete the names of files and directories. In this mode, the names and understood the mask. Try to go to the directory with a lot of text files, dial dir * .txt and press a few times TAB. This works for files.

Also, a number of useful links given in the above blog for those who wish to work with the command line to bring "to mind."

• http://download.microsoft.com/download/whistler/Install/2/WXP/EN-US/CmdHerePowertoySetup.exe - addition that adds to the context menu «Open Command Window Here».
• http://msmvps.com/blogs/coad/archive/2005/02/19/36473.aspx - an alternative shell for Windows
• http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php? group_id = 43764 & package_id = 36333 - the shell of a standard shell working in the graphics window, supports tabs.