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NIKHIL GAUTAM
NIKHIL GAUTAM

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These Command Prompt (Tricks) will Amaze you.

1.Change the color of the Command Prompt

Before we change the color we must be aware of how many colors are there in Command prompt So first run this command
color help

This will give you the list of available colors.

0 = Black 8 = Gray
1 = Blue 9 = Light Blue
2 = Green A = Light Green
3 = Aqua B = Light Aqua
4 = Red C = Light Red
5 = Purple D = Light Purple
6 = Yellow E = Light Yellow
7 = White F = Bright White

Select any two number followed by color as prefix (number1 number2) number 1 is for background color
number 2 is for text color.

Now if you want to make your color green with black as a background type color 02 or color 0A

Note: - color 07 is the default color of command prompt.

Command Prompt Color Changed

2. Change the Prompt

You can create your own custom prompt
e.g. C:\Users\Downloads to Something like yourname@hacker.

prompt your custom name

e.g.
prompt harry@hacker$G

Command prompt name change

3. Changing the title of command prompt window

title Enter your own title

e.g. title Hacking the system & it will change the title of your command prompt.

Command Prompt Title change

4. Hide Your Personal Stuff!

To hide Use this command :- Attrib +h +s +r folder name

To Show USe this command :- Attrib -h -s -r folder name

5. Copy Output to Clipboard

| clip this command will copy the command output to your clip board.

dir | clip this command will copy the dir's command output to your clip board.

| this is a pipe symbol.

6. View Command History

by Using f7 key from your keyboard you can checkout the command history.

7. Create folders with reserved name

What are name which we cannot use to make a folder.

  1. con
  2. aux

These are the by default reserved keyword in windows..
but we can overwrite this by using command

md aux\ - this will generate a aux folder.
md con\ - this will generate a con folder.

8. View All installed Programs in the Command Prompt.

wmic product get name

this command will show you all the programs installed in your machine.

Programs see using cmd

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