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.

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.

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.

Open the Start menu and type "cmd" into the "Search Programs and Files" box. Press "Enter" to open the Command Prompt window. Type in the command you want to run and then type in the following ...