Command Prompt Tricks that You Should Know

1. Encrypt Files Using Command Prompt

• Simply launch the Command Prompt, and change your working directory to the folder where your files are. This can be done by using the “cd” command.

• Once you’re done, type “Cipher /E“, and hit Enter. This will encrypt all the files that were inside the folder.

2. Change the Color of the Command Prompt Window

• Launch CMD and Right-click on the title bar

• Click on “Properties” and in the separate window that opens, click on “Colors”`

• Here you can choose the colors for the screen text or background as well as for the popup text and background, and also change the transparency of the CMD window

• After you’re done choosing the most fitting colors for your personality, Click OK

Note: There are a lot of other colors available, and you can check out the entire list by typing “help color“.

3. Change the Prompt Text in Command Prompt

• Launch Command Prompt, and type “prompt” followed by the text that you want. Make sure you add “$G” to the end, to ensure that there is always the “>” sign at the end of the prompt, and you know where your command begins at.

• Hit Enter, and you will see the prompt in the cmd window change to your custom text

4. Change the Title of the Command Prompt Window

• Open Command Prompt, and type “title”, followed by the text that you want the Title bar to read.

5. List Every Driver Installed on Your Windows 10 PC

• Type in driverquery /FO list /v in CMD, and you will see a list of drivers on your screen.

• If you want, you can also copy this output into a text file for easy viewing later. Use this command to save the drivers list to a document:

driverquery  C:\Users\YourUsername\Desktop\driver.txt