How do I start the command line?

First let's see what the command line is. Interface command line (console) - text. The user enters certaincommands, the system performs them. The command line is used, for example, to trace a route to a site (server) or to test ping for problems with the Internet.

In Windows NT (Windows 2000 and later) is used command-line interpreter cmd.exe, which replaced the obsolete interpretercommand.com, which was used in the systems of the Windows 9x family and MS-DOS. The interpreter translates the text command into a system that is understandable to the system. Run the command line in Windows means run the cmd.exe application.

To call the command line, you can use one of the following methods.

Click on the "Start" button. In the menu that opens, select Run. In the opened window in the Open box, enter the name of the program cmd.exe and click on the OK button or press the Enter key on the keyboard. To open the Run window, you can also use the Win + R keys (Win - the Windows logo key in the bottom row of the keyboard).

You can open a command line and more"Traditional" way, selecting it from the list of installed programs. To do this, again, click on the "Start" button, select All Programs from the menu, select Standard in the menu, and select the required program from the list of standard programs - Command line.

But the command line running in this way may not allow you to execute certain commands. To achieve your goal, you need to run a command prompt on behalf of the administrator. For this we "get" to the command linein the previous way (Start - All Programs - Standard), but click on the word combination Command line not with the left mouse button, but with the right button. A context menu will open. In it, click on Run as administrator. A dialog box may appear: "Allow the next program to make changes on this computer?". Feel free to click "Yes".

To not perform the same manipulations every time you start the command line, you can configure automatic start as administrator. To do this, we call the context menu the same wayin the same way as in the previous case, but instead of Run as administrator, select Properties. In the opened properties dialog box, go to the Shortcut tab and click on the Advanced button. In the window that opens, check the Run as administrator, click on the OK button, and in the properties window click Apply and OK.

Windows 7 includes extensible command-line interface shell, Windows PowerShell. It can be used in place of the standardcommand line. Starting Windows PowerShell is as easy as using the usual command line (cmd.exe): Start - All Programs - Standard - Windows PowerShell.

After running the command line, you can see list of most used commands. To do this, enter the help command and click onthe Enter key. A list of available commands opens. To get more information about the command you are interested in, you need to enter help command-name, for example, help tree. If you want to get information about a particular utility, the constructor utility_name /? Will help, for example, ping / ?.

Command line - quite useful Windows tool, which can be useful in various situations. And when the next time a representative of the provider's technical support asks you to open a command line and check the ping, you will not have the question "How to start the command line?"