Lifehacker reader Paladin writes in with some smart command line-fu for running quick commands using command line switches: Whenever I want to do a quick "ping google.com" to see whether my network ...

A Command Prompt allows you to run programs, manipulate Windows settings, and access files by typing in commands that you wish to execute. To start a Command Prompt you simply need to type cmd.exe in ...

I hope this is moderately difficult to do in Win2K, because I can't figure out how to do it. I want to open the Command prompt, cmd.exe, in a specific folder and run a few commands, like set path, map ...

If you have every used the Command Line, or CMD, interface in Windows, you probably have some idea of the powerful things it can do. Creating your own CMD scripts, you can do even more, but faster. A ...