Command Prompt help.

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Hi, I'm kind of new to the whole command prompt experience. I am having trouble navigating through the prompt to open files that I want to. The C:\ line comes up, but after it is the documents and settings Bman line. It looks lik this
C:\Documents and Settings\Bman> The point is, I was just wondering if I could change that to just plain old C:\ instead of the documents and settings line. please help. I am very confused. THANK YOU!!
 
Open the Command Prompt and type: CD C:\ , and hit enter.

Command-line reference A-Z
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/tr...hNet/prodtechnol/winxppro/proddocs/ntcmds.asp

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| Hi, I'm kind of new to the whole command prompt experience. I am having trouble navigating through the
prompt to open files that I want to. The C:\ line comes up, but after it is the documents and settings Bman
line. It looks lik this:
| C:\Documents and Settings\Bman> The point is, I was just wondering if I could change that to just plain old
C:\ instead of the documents and settings line. please help. I am very confused. THANK YOU!!
 
Howdy.

To ease the pain, find the Windows binary port of a Linux file manager called Midnight Commander

It is a 32 bit .exe file and runs from the Desktop
An very powerful file manager which must be used with care, you can trash your system..

And do learn the command line commands recommended in the previous post

Also learn the difference between command.exe and cmd.com, realize that in XP you are not using DOS, really, just an emulator, of sorts
 
Hi Bman,


You can browse your directories using the cd command (change
directory) Thus:
cd "C:\Program files"
Click to expand...

would get you to the Program files directory (as the name has a blank
space, it must be between quote marks). To get to the parent
directory, type cd ..


Good luck
 
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