List of Command Prompt Commands

Complete list of CMD commands for Windows

by 
Tim Fisher
Updated on February 20, 2021

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The Command Prompt  in Windows provides access to over 280 commands.

These commands are used to do certain operating system tasks from
a command-line interface  instead of the graphical Windows interface we use
most of the time.

For example, Command Prompt commands let you copy data to a different
folder, format an entire disk, back up your files, send messages to other
computers, restart your own computer, and much  more. There are also
several Command Prompt tricks and hacks  that utilize some of these
commands. 

CMD Commands
Below is a complete list of Command Prompt commands, often called CMD
commands (and sometimes incorrectly as Command Prompt codes ),
available from the Command Prompt in Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows
7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP.

Since these commands work within the context of Command Prompt, you
have to open Command Prompt  to utilize them.
It's important to know that the commands in Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, and XP are
called CMD commands or Command Prompt commands, and the
commands in Windows 98/95 and MS-DOS are called DOS commands.
We've included all of them in this list to help show changes in commands
from operating system to operating system.

Command Prompt Commands List

 Command Prompt Commands. 

As mentioned above, we've also included DOS commands from MS-DOS

and early versions of Windows:

Press Ctrl+F while using a desktop browser for a quick way to find more

information about a specific command or to look for a particular keyword in
this table.