That's not the case anymore; you can use sudo on Windows 11 now. All you need to do is enable a few toggles, and you can enjoy one of the smallest but perhaps most significant workflow improvements to ...

Command Prompt (or CMD) is Microsoft’s command-line interpreter for its Windows operating systems. It enables you to use commands for performing various operations on your computer — everything from ...

The Command Prompt or Console has been one of the best tools ever. It was built before GUIs and is way more flexible and usable. There are a few things that can only be performed from the console and ...

The Run command in Windows 11/10, let you run any Windows task or process. The Search box that appears on the Start menu of Windows provides similar functionality as the Run command. Still, for ...

Press Windows + S and type cmd. Right-click Command Prompt and select Run as administrator. Type compact /compactos:never and ...

If you can do without the buttons and menus, you can type commands to manage files--and Windows itself. Covered commands include renaming, deleting, and backing up. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about ...

One of the things that has always been lacking is good all-in-one documentation on the various Windows console commands and how to use them. Yeah, we always had the "help" command in the Command ...

In the not-too-distant future, children will look at keyboards and mice with a mixture of amusement and derision. Advances in speech-recognition and dictation technology have quietly made stunning ...

Lifehacker reader Michael writes in with a nifty tip that was lurking in our comments all along, but deserves to see the bright light of posting. If you're already using the Unix-like Cygwin, it's an ...

You can make your life a little easier and more productive by adding some Unix power to your Windows system. For a fairly extensive collection of Unix tools — including most of the essentials like ...