If you want to execute a task from the command line in Windows, you first have to open Command Prompt. Here are 11 ways to do that.

Getting started with Windows Command Prompt? Check out these essential Command Prompt commands to perform operations on your Windows PC more efficiently.

Different Ways to Open Command Prompt in Windows 11 By Grace Posted on September 17, 2021 Updated on September 1, 2023 This post demonstrates different methods to access the Windows 11 command prompt.

If you want to open an Elevated Command Prompt, which is one that runs with Administrator privileges, you can see the How to open a Windows 10 Elevated Command Prompt article instead.

This method allows you to avoid editing the File Explorer options—meaning you can keep file extensions hidden, and it will still work. Open Command Prompt.

This clever trick will pull up a file browser on demand. Certainly we're not the only ones who, while staring at the command prompt, realized that the file we wanted to access was 87 long ...

From the command line, type "backup.bat" and the batch file will run your specified commands: first, copying all files from that directory, then renaming them to remove the extensions.