Command Prompt Hacks for Windows

Command prompt in Windows is equivalent to the terminal in Linux and Bash in MacOS. But Windows command prompt comes with a wide range of customizable features.

Talking about the command prompt, let’s check out some interesting Tricks you can do in Command prompt. 

 1. Encrypting the files using CMD :

It is the most useful command to encrypt or decrypt the folders or files without using any third-party apps 

• Search for CMD in windows search (windows key + S).
• And open CMD. Just type ” Cipher /E” then hit on enter this will encrypt all the files in the current directory.
• To decrypt type “Cipher /D”.

2. Customizing the CMD:

• Open CMD then Right click on the Title bar click on Properties
• Then choose the Colors select Screen Text select any color 

• Then click on OK.

3. Change the font style :

• Open CMD then right-click on the title bar. 
• Choose the Fonts there you can select any of the font styles.

4. Change the prompt text in CMD:

• Launch CMD  then type “Prompt “+<Text you wanna See>  hit enter.

5. Change the Title of CMD:

• Launch CMD type Title +<name you wanna see there > then hit enter.

6. Watch StarWars in CMD:

• First, make sure that you have enabled Telnet Client.
• Search for Turn Windows Features On or Off in windows search.

• Click OK.
• Launch Command Prompt, and type “telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl”, and hit Enter.

• To get out of it click ctrl+c

7. Check the pc battery Details in CMD:

• Launch CMD make sure runs as Admin in case it doesn’t work.
• The command is Powercgf battery report.
• This generates your pc battery report in the form of an HTML file.
• To see that just copy-paste the path is shown and hit enter in CMD. 

8. Check Command prompt History:

• The command is Doskey /history.

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