Over time, the need to fire up the Command Prompt has waned—but a handful of its commands remain easier to use than Windows 10's graphical equivalents.

While you can always use the Windows 11 Settings app or the Task Manager for common things in Windows, the Command Prompt has nifty tricks, too.

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

Command Prompt essential commands for Windows 11 This list includes the most basic commands that any user should know. The list isn't arranged in any specific order.

Command Prompt commands let you manage your computer, move files, start apps, and more just by typing.

This article is about using MS-DOS command prompt to find files on the computer. It also show some of the MS-DOS commands.