Improve the performance of XP and Vista--at least a little bit--by running its built-in disk defragmenter with your choice of command switches. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology ...

Your arrow keys deserve better.

Windows, Microsoft, and third-party software makers supply numerous useful tools for the command line — but these are not always easy to use. Graphical user interfaces (GUI), on the other hand, ...

Many Java applications started from the command line take arguments to control their behavior. These arguments are available in the string array argument passed into the application’s static main() ...

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GUIs are great—we wouldn’t want to live without them. But if you’re a Mac or Linux user and you want to get the most out of your operating system (and your keystrokes), you owe it to yourself to get ...

Here is a useful “How-To” that I have missed using for some time. It’s an oldie, but a goodie. Surely there are those of us that sometimes brave the innards of Vista’s GUI to do a little command line ...

David Nield is a technology journalist from Manchester in the U.K. who has been writing about gadgets and apps for more than 20 years. He has a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Durham ...

Command Prompt is tagged among the essential tools in Windows computers. This text-based operating system has been in existence since before the official introduction of graphical user interfaces and ...

In the April 2017 issue, I wrote about how to use ticketing systems as a sysadmin to organize your tasks better. In that article, I made a brief reference to the fact that I've integrated some of my ...