As time goes on, there are more and more people that have absolutely no clue how to use the Command Prompt in Windows. It is true you can get the vast majority of what you need to get done Windows without ever having to go to the Command Prompt, however for certain things such as IPCONFIG (seen in video below), you must go to the prompt in order to actually use it.

The Command Prompt in the Windows environment goes all the way back to MS-DOS since Windows was originally an environment that run "on top of" DOS.

The video below will work on any NT-based Windows (Windows NT, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Server 2008, Vista, 7).

For you super old-schoolers out there, "cmd" doesn’t exist in Windows 95 or 98 because the command interpreter in those environments was actually MS-DOS 7 based and not NT. If you wanted to run a prompt in those environments, it’s "command" and not "cmd".

Notes on the video below:

At the portion when you see the right-click inside the Command Prompt window, one option I didn’t cover (but should have upon reflection) is "Select All", which selects whatever is in the window. You can choose that, then press Enter to select it. This may be easier for you than the other methods listed.

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