Command Prompt and Windows PowerShell are also simple and built-in options covered in this post for this purpose. We have already seen how to open a file or folder using Command Prompt or PowerShell.

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

If you want to open an Elevated Command Prompt, which is one that runs with Administrator privileges, you can see the How to open a Windows 10 Elevated Command Prompt article instead.

If you want to execute a task from the command line in Windows, you first have to open Command Prompt. Here are 11 ways to do that.

You can write commands_ to open programs, add or change account permissions, back up files or get information about your computer using the CMD window.

The "open" program is specific to OS X and lets you basically drag and drop a file with the -a command onto an application. This way it overrides the per-user OBJ open-with settings.