What's Windows XP's MS-DOS command prompt?

A. XP, Windows 2000, and Windows NT don't contain DOS, although XP can create DOS-bootable disks. All three OSs support the cmd.exe command shell, which lets you run NT-equivalent DOS commands. In XP, go to Start, Programs, Accessories or click Start, Run, then type

cmd.exe

to start the command shell. For older application support, you might want to try the command.com shell, which is more compatible with MS-DOS than cmd.exe is. In XP, click Start, Run, then type

command.com

to start the command.com shell. Command.com can call autoexec.bat and config.nt, both of which are located in the \windows\system32 directory, just as MS-DOS calls autoexec.bat and config.sys. If you're having trouble running your old DOS command-line programs from the cmd.exe environment, try running them inside a command.com shell.

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My Ques is whenever i type command in run box it gives me error File Not Found in dospromt and then my dos promt started tell me what i have to do

Raj October 08, 2003

how do i bring up command prompt on xp using the keyboard?
please someone who knows tell me!

a user October 13, 2003

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sohaib October 16, 2003

Hi i am setting up new hard drive and it says to run FDISK from MS-DOS command prompt but i must be doing somthing wrong.If you can help me it would be great.How do i get into MS-DOS CP

Ynes Taddio December 05, 2003

i autoexec.bat are very important commmand to run up your pc if you are haven problems of runing the program. i will like to support this articles of commands also need some of the command free. thanks

adam askanda jinko December 09, 2003

Good information. But, I am unable to run ping, edit, notepad, etc. from the cmd as well as from the command prompts. Help!

Anna January 19, 2004

everytime i open dos in xp by a program that automatically uses it or go to run and type command.com or cmd.exe it shut's the dos window down in about 5 seconds. how can i get it running

joe March 13, 2004

please tell me

gagandeep samant April 16, 2004

i am network engg so i need some dos commanda

raffiq April 16, 2004

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