The MKS Toolkit isn't a single product, but a range of products for interoperability between Windows and Unix environments. I looked at two of these products—MKS Toolkit for System Administrators and ...

How to use the Shell command to view all your applications in File Explorer Your email has been sent The Shell command offers a handy way to view your Applications folder. Here's how it works--and why ...

The Windows community is a universe of uniformity in which users depend on robust commercial applications and standard graphical utilities. With the Vista release right around the proverbial corner, ...

Since 2006, Microsoft has been bundling the PowerShell command-line shell that administrators can use to manage their computers and other computers on a network. "Windows PowerShell is a Windows ...

Bash is fairly easy to install, but using it is another matter. Here are some commands to help IT pros dip their toes in Bash. I have written quite a bit lately about the Bash shell that exists within ...

Wow, adopting features from X11 xterm circa 1984! It's about freaking time! It does fix many of my pain points in the terminal itself. But still not good enough. Probably sticks you with a poor ...

Windows Terminal, by default, uses Windows PowerShell as its command-line interpreter. If you use Command Prompt or any other command-line interpreter, you may want to change the default shell in ...

The Windows Subsystem for Linux is bridging the divide between Windows and Linux by letting you run Windows 10 programs directly within a Linux shell. One of the strengths of the Windows Subsystem for ...

In 2006, Windows Script Host (WSH) and the Command Prompt shell got a new sibling when Microsoft released a completely new environment called Windows PowerShell. PowerShell has some similarities to ...