Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Before Windows, there was MS-DOS—that’s the Microsoft Disk ...

QRunning Windows Me, I have tried everything I can think of to locate MS-DOS but have had no luck. AThe MS-DOS prompt is still available in Windows Millennium Edition, but it can be easy to overlook.

Explore 280+ CMD commands with detailed descriptions across Windows versions, from Windows XP to 11 The Command Prompt in ...

This is a new machine on which XP Pro was installed. During installation only the basic options were chosen.<BR>After installation, when I open a MS-DOS prompt, the file and folder names have a ...

I have a system that had three partitions and I was dual-booting Win98 (c:drive - FAT32) and W2K (d:drive - NTFS). Anyway, I completely trashed that setup and repartitioned the drive to just load ...

In context: Back in 1980, Tim Paterson was creating a new operating system he called QDOS or Quick and Dirty Operating System. The system was later renamed 86-DOS, as it was being designed to run on ...