Command Prompt tips

How to change Command Prompt settings

You can easily change Windows Command Prompt settings, such as: Font, Font Size, Color, background, Buffer Size and …
To change Command Prompt, Right-click the title bar of the command prompt window, and select Properties. Here you can change command prompt settings.

How to copy text from a Command Prompt

1-Right-click the title bar of the command prompt window, click Edit> and select Mark.
2- Now, you can select the text you want to copy, just click and drag the cursor to select the text.
3- Right-click the title bar, click Edit> and select Copy.
4- Paste the text on your editor

How to open command prompt to a directory

You can open a command prompt to a directory that is selected in the Explorer
1- click start > Run > and type “regedit” (without quotes), to run Windows Registry Editor
2- find and go to following “HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT \ Directory \ shell”
3- Create a new key and name “Command”, and give it value of the name you want to appear in the Explorer
4- Under this key create a new key and name “command”, and give it value of cmd.exe /k "cd %L"
5- Now right click on a folder, select Open DOS Box, and a command prompt will open to the selected directory.

How To unban/ban sites using command prompt
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Answer these Questions in order please.

1.How do I unban sites using command prompt because my brother did this to me and I have know way to figure out Please answer This question I would appreciate it alot.

2.How do I restrict/ban sites using command prompt I would like to know Thank you very much for your time

-reply by Ammar

DOS Box Cursor Color
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Hi -

Windows 2k/XP: Have been successful in changing the text and background color of the DOS box; however still have a blinking cursor in *white*...

Q: Is there a way (maybe via registry settings) to change the *cursor color* too..?

 Thanks. 

-question by Marty

 

Toi get time stamp in th txt file created by CMD.
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I run a command to map another system.

net use \\xx.Xxx.Xx.Xxx /user:abcd abcd123@ >> log.Txt

From this iget "The command completed successfully." in the txt file however it want the time this command was executed do that I can keep a track on the same.

something like  " May 09 2009 10:00:12 Am : The command completed successfully."

Kinldy help me if we can achive this.

Thanks in advance.

Kardiva

Thanks for this usefull tips on windows.
But the last one should be best run on a *.reg file so that headache free.

I created one so that if anyone wanna go with these.
Just double-click file and press yes.
The settings will enter into the system registry.

How to copy text from a Command Prompt (the easy way)

I find myself at the command prompt frequently and copy/paste is essential. You can set the preferences to more permanently facilitate copy/paste.

1. Right click the title bar and select properties.
2. On the Options tab check Quick Edit Mode.
3. Click OK.
4. A new window will appear asking how you would like to save these changes, select Save properties for future windows with same title.

Now when you need to copy something from the command line, use your mouse to make the selection (similar to selecting icons in Windows Explorer). Once you have what you want selected, hit the Enter key and it is saved to the clipboard. If you want to paste, right click the mouse and the clipboard will be pasted where the cursor is.

This method takes some getting used to but Ctrl+C cannot be used at the command line because it has the special property of issuing a break and stopping any current processing. Ctrl+C was in DOS well before the idea of copy/paste so it gets priority by virtue of time.

This post has been edited by tansqrx: May 29 2009, 07:41 PM

When you are referring to sites I assuming you mean Windows accounts? You can stop a user from accessing the command prompt by using Group Policy. You must be an Administrator on the machine to use the Group Policy Editor or make any changes so make sure your account has these permissions. A fairly useful Microsoft Knowledge Base article is located at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307882 and tells you how to run Group Policy Editor. There are many options from disabling screensavers to disabling the command prompt, just look for the one that applies to you.

This post has been edited by tansqrx: May 29 2009, 07:47 PM

Are you sure sites are blocked in command prompt? This is higly unlikely since there is no such built-in feature. He is probably using running a external program to filter URLs using a blacklist or whitelist, or using the default Windows HOSTS file to redirect some of your URL requests to a none existent website.

hmmm, actually I don't suggest settting this as a default. Because it will cause some unneed access to the insert mode.
If you have done a comparsion with windows 2000 and windows xp. You will found that windows xp had changed it from enabled to disable.

As I still works with both windows 2000 and windows xp. I do not like or need it by default. To access the insert mode, just right-click over the command-prompt and choose mark, and now can start mark the text to be copy; and press enter to copy the text to the system clipboard.

how to change Admin settings in command prompt mode????
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My system is starting only in safe mode. Somebody changed my administration settings. Now I couldn't install kapersky. I wanna login normally and not from safe mode.Somebody help me with it...

Also please tell me how to change administration settings in Command prompt mode.

 Is ther some way to find out the admin password using DOS commands???

-question by sandy