HOWTO: Quickly run DOS commands using /k
[ 22 August 2006 ]
Marked under time savers, windows.

So I won a Windows Vista DVD over at Lifehacker for this little tip.

When you go to the Run box and enter cmd, add a /k after it followed by your command. Best understood by example:

cmd /k ipconfig /all

This will open the command window and run ipconfig /all all in one shot. The /k launches cmd in interactive mode, which will then process any commands after it. Here’s another example:

cmd /k netstat /?

That will pull up the help contents for the netstat command in one move by entering it in the Run box.

“Yesterday it worked, today it is not working. Windows is like that.”
          - Margaret Segall