I've never been able to get the invisible folder to work. I'm sure I'm doing something wrong, but cannot figure out what it would be. Right click the folder, then, i think you hit advanced, then make invisible folder, or something like that. More by the author:.
Did you make this project? Share it with us! I Made It! I began computing in the days of DOS, and I still can't give up the command prompt. When it comes to doing down-and-dirty tasks like mass deleting or renaming of files, nothing beats it. I find myself frequently switching back and forth between Windows Explorer and the command prompt. Often, when using Windows Explorer, I want to open the command prompt at the folder that's my current location.
That takes too many steps: opening a command prompt and then navigating to my current folder. However, there's a quicker way: you can add an option to the right-click context menu that will open a command prompt at your current folder. Create a new key called Command Prompt. To use tab completion in the Command Prompt, just enter the command and then the portion of the path that you do know, if at all.
Then press the Tab key over and over to cycle through all of the available possibilities. For example, let's say you want to change directories to some folder in the Windows directory but you're not sure what it's named.
You know how your smartphone's texting app automatically guesses what it is you want to type next? Tab completion in Command Prompt is sort of like that—only better. Want to find the IP address of any website? Use the nslookup command or the ping command, but the former is probably faster. First, let's use the nslookup command to find the IP address of lifewire. Just execute nslookup lifewire.
Don't confuse any private IP addresses that also show up in the nslookup results alongside the public IP address of lifewire. Now let's try using the ping command to find it. Execute ping lifewire. Don't worry if the ping command "times out" during execution; all we needed here was the IP address.
You can use the same procedure with any website or any hostname on your local network. A number of these Command Prompt tricks have dealt with making copying and pasting easier. So, how about an even easier way to copy from the Command Prompt and a secret way to easily paste? Just right-click on the Command Prompt title bar and select Properties. Enabling QuickEdit Mode is like having Mark enabled all the time, so selecting text to copy is really easy.
As a bonus, this also enables a simple way to paste into the Command Prompt: just right click once and whatever you have in the clipboard is pasted in the Command Prompt window. Normally, pasting involves right-clicking and selecting Paste , so this is still a bit different than you're used to. Just open Command Prompt and execute this:.
The movie will start immediately. Check out the tip below if this doesn't work. True, this isn't a terribly productive use of the Command Prompt, nor is it really a trick of the Command Prompt or any command, but it sure is fun! We can't imagine the work that went into this homage to the sci-fi masterpiece. The Telnet command isn't enabled by default, so if you want to use the Telnet client in Windows you need to enable it from Control Panel.. Actively scan device characteristics for identification.
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Measure content performance. Develop and improve products. List of Partners vendors. By Tim Fisher. Tim Fisher. Tim Fisher has more than 30 years' of professional technology experience. He's been writing about tech for more than two decades and serves as the VP and General Manager of Lifewire. Tweet Share Email. How to Read Command Syntax.
How to Redirect Command Output to a File. The drag and drop feature doesn't work in an elevated Command Prompt.
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