I started working on computers mid 80's. Started on DOS and TSR's. Retired last year... I recently helped some young kid, get his parents PC's on the 'net using DOS cmds. He was amazed to say the least. I also help neighbors with their machines. Now I'm upgrading all my neighbors to W11, even if the machine doesn't meet hardware req. I don't charge them, but i do get a lot of home-baked goodies! 🎉
Back in mid-1990s I did tech support in a call center. Anytime I got an uppity customer who thought he knew more than I did, I'd take him into DOS and troubleshoot from there. They instantly became docile and did exactly what they were told.
My computer usage goes back before DOS. I started computer programming in 1966 using 80 column punch cards and paper tape. When DOS came in it was new technology for us.
The first program I wrote in year 11 (1977) was on punch cards run on an HP 3000 minicomputer. I didn't terminate my loop and ended up with a HEAP of printout. I learned from that experience.
@@SandcastleDreams I am 77. I left school in 1966 and started work in computers. Everyone said "Why are you doing that? There is no future in those things" 😂
@@dingokidneys Ouch! That was back when we paid for our processor usage!! My pet peeve is when I was in a hurry do didn't number my cards... well, being in a rush ya know I was gonna drop them!!
I used MS DOS on my family PC back then as a kid. Then we sold our PC and after years what I got was win 98 -> 2000 -> XP in just a few years which was quite a jump. To this day I use command prompt from time to time, lots of stuff you can only do there and also it feels quite nostalgic 😅
When work rolled out Windows 3 in place of DOS, every morning I'd start the machine then close out of Windows to the DOS prompt. I could get everything done so much faster from there than from poking about in Windows. I finally gave that up when we moved to actual Windows versions of the office software but the command line has always remained my friend especially when I moved to Linux.
@@dingokidneys Same here. I felt I had control using the command line. A lot of errors could be pinpointed much easier than in consumer-oriented Windows, where you got a nice box telling you 'Your xyz could not be..." 😁
@AskYourComputerGuy Batch files, Key Macros, Hot Keys and Keyboard Shortcuts etc was what pulled me into the rabbit hole, lol. When I moved from using a dedicated Music Sequencer (Roland MC- 500 mkII) to a DOS version of Cakewalk it sped up my work rate by at least 1000%. Took me a at least a decade to let go of the DOS environment and settle into working solely in the Windows environment. That was only achieved by venturing down a second rabbit hole of tweaking Windows till I felt it was running optimally and had lost the desire to 'Phone Home' every 5 minutes. I HATE using a mouse when I work. Keyboard shorts are way quicker. I still use DOSBOX every once in a while to convert my old Cakewalk and MC 500 files to a format compatible with my present DAW (ProTools) when needed. Thanks for a great channel btw. Handy to have a resource like this for when Microsoft throws its curve balls.
Wow, this really takes me back in time. I started using PC's in 1983. We had Dos 2.1 before Windows was developed. I also used Dos 6.2 on Floppies. That's all there was for us at that time.
the days a working OS on a single floppy, it not going to long before a single hard-disk, SSD, will not be big enough no matter how terra-bites it has?
@@tg9754 remember Xtree Gold, such power, you could put a file on several disks, which overcame the limitation of a floppy disk. Those days desktop computers were a step into a new world, yet looking back so simplistic and limited. I remember buying a 130mb hard drive and asking the sales guy if it was big enough, to which he replied, “plenty, you’ll never fill that up”.
The most powerfull DOS command is DEBUG. I began to learn how to use debug on a 80286 CPU. Debug was the first DOS command that i used. I came from a Comodore C64 programming in assembly 6502 CPU and it was easy to switch to x86 assembly. Today i am on an android tablet with a DosBox app installed and the emulation of x86 on an ARM CPU works great. I use DosBox to program tiny x86 executable files (using debug download/unzip) and i put all instructions into batch files for open source projects. I made some videos(no speech) to show how it works and to share the projects. Have fun.😊
This takes me back, when I built my first computer I used DOS6, I remember my first boot up with a blank screen and a, C:\ in the corner and thought now what, thanks for the memory.
Soo many Windows user should watch this video. Its full of good knowledge that can prevent a costly walk to a repair shop (or outright a purchase of a new computer). And I say this as a Linux user. For the last point, you can use `sudo` now, also NEVER run an entire console session as Administrator/root and don´t change the Run always as Administrator setting on cmd.exe, as others (a hacker or virus) can also just use it that way.
Command Prompt is officially called Windows Command Processor, but it's also sometimes referred to as the command shell or cmd prompt, or even by its filename, cmd.exe. Command Prompt is sometimes incorrectly referred to as "the DOS prompt" or as MS-DOS. Command Prompt is a Windows program that emulates many of the command line abilities available in MS-DOS, but it's not MS-DOS.
Thanks for the video on this topic. I knew about dos, but had virtually forgotten about it. Not only have I learnt things from your videos, but have been reminded of others forgotten. (I'm in my late 60s and figure it's a good excuse to forget LOL) Thanks again !! 👍👍
If sfc /scannow doesn't fix corrupt files, run the DISM command, then run SFC again. SFC depends on the health of the system image to fix corrupt files
I ended up writing a .cmd file that I drop into System32 (because command prompt automatically starts there by default), which runs through various DISM fixes and ends with SFC. Comes in so handy, I just do it on every computer I work on now, even if they don't need it at the time.
@@redfields5070 It compares to an online archive on Microsoft servers. You can restrict internet access and point it to a local install, but I prefer to just let it connect online.
In the early 90’s I had a IBM PC. No windows yet. You had to use DOS commands to do everything. I recall building a little program launcher to run Word and Lotus 1-2-3. Which i used daily.
Back then Word Perfect installed at 1.2 mb, Lotus at 1.4mb and I had a 10 mb drive!!! Woot! what does a guy do wiith all tha space?!! Leisure Suit Larry I guess...
I learned to program on an IBM mainfraime using Fortran and the WatFour and WatFive compilers, 'way back in the mid 70's. In the mid 80's I got my first personal computer - a second hand Commodore 64, where you loaded programs from floppy, or programmed your own stuff using BASIC. I also typed in the ML code for programs published in RUN magazine. My first PC was a Windows 3.11 machine - where you often had to dig into DOS to get things to work - it is still useful!
This video was helpful, even though I already knew some of those commands. But you gave additional detail which was very good. I hope you will make that other video that you discussed (somewhere at approx 19:30) in your video, which describes copying things to a flash drive. I'd really like to have that, and I have subscribed!
Use the command line every day on multiple computers. Quickest way to get a lot of stuff done. I'm in my early forties but started using computers at a pretty young age, and it was pretty hard for me to get used to a GUI. Besides the dos-like commands that are still a part of windows, you can download some pretty useful thrid party command line utilities. One of my favourites is ffmpeg. But the list is endless -- and even moreso if you use LInux instead of windows, of course. never thought of using the Type command in the way you describe here. That's pretty cool actually. A neat trick if you dont' want to open a command window and want to issue a command that makes some output in a list especally is to issue the command from the run box, where you can use the > symbol to send the output to a file of your choosing.
Very true! There's tons more advanced features, but for my mostly novice audience, I tried to keep it to the basic stuff that would be most helpful for everyday needs 👍
Many of these commands can be listed by typing: help at the prompt line. Why sfc isn't listed, I don't know! But I can see why DISM isn't. Should also note you can type: the command, then help after it. An exception is: sfc- you MUST type: help sfc for that to work!
Alternatively, just add /? after any command you want the flags for. So 'sfc /?' would show the command flags for SFC. Same with DISM, same with any of them.
DISM and SFC are related, run DISM first to restore health, then run SFC /scannow because that’s what SFC will use to fix files, this is why SFC fails often fails because the image is old or not working properly.
My last file that i made is PACMAN.BAT and it is a tiny animation for the command prompt using 3 * 8 = 24 extended ASCII used as User character bios function. The body of the PACMAN is placed inside of 2 character with 8x16 character size and each step the body move 1 pixel to the right side into a third character softly while open and close the mouth. After 8 * 3 steps we use the next right location on screen to repeat all again drawing the 3 ASCII at once, but 8 times with the next triple of character.
The modern Windows terminal is light years far from MS DOS. Most of the Windows commands not exist in MS DOS or have other switches. Windows is running in the protected mode of the CPU and in a graphic mode of the display device, but DOS is running in the real address mode of the CPU and in the vga text mode. This is a significant difference. The DOS user is free to use all hardware components directly without to get a message of a protection violation. But in Windows the user is inside of a (1984 knocking on your door) concentration camp surrounded with watch towers and electric barbe wires while some of the pig brothers are watching you.
5:35 ... It should be noted that not all versions of Windows install Ping by default. You can add it by going to Control Panel --- Programs and Features, then Windows Features and checking the "Simple TCPIP Services" item. This will enable Ping and a whole bunch of other really cool trouble shooting commands.
I wouldn't recommend doing that final tip due to security vulnerabilities. You don't want to accidentally run a command as administrator when the command you use has built-in safety limitations and actually notify you that the option you want to use needs administrator access. Instead, use the standard command line and prefix any command that needs administrator access with the "RUNAS" command. Supply user credentials for a user in the administrators group and password after their parameter switches, and the actual command last.
Good tips. Often the profile corruption is not actually corruption but just a hiccup that prevented windows from starting up properly while loading the profile (not necessarily permanent corruption) and rather than have to start with a fresh profile and all the work getting it set up right, you can just find the path to your old profile in the registry. It will have I think from memory the word ".bak" appended to it. You just rename the key by deleting ".bak" from the name. Then restart. Probably safe to do this from a complete new profile so use your trick to setup a new profile, but don't bother setting it up just go straight to regedit and fix the path name for your previous profile. Google for more complete instructions but that's the gist of it. Various things can cause Windows to decide the profile can't be loaded and create a new blank profile for that user as a safety measure. But the old profile including not just it's files, but it's reference in the registry is still there able to be restored.
@@AskYourComputerGuy absolutely, the commands you listed are very useful and well within the novice's reach. Just thought I'd mention about the profile fix in case any one reading decides they want to try and recover their profile without setting up from scratch. At the end of the day a blank profile is a way to get back into a working gui so a very useful tip.
Wow Scott you are a youngster :-) I go back to dos 3.1 and DR-Dps which was Digital Research Dos.. Our friend Mr Gates didn't event invent Dos. but yeah Great Video And yes... an old dog has actually learnt a new trick. SFC Keep up the good work!
@@Douglas_Blake_579 CP/M -- Control Program/Monitor, then later Control Program for Microcomputer -- created by Gary Kildall of Digital Research in 1974 Originally made for use on computers based on the 8-bit Intel 8080/8085 CPU (as well as "workalike" CPUs like the Zilog Z-80). PC/MS-DOS would be built from Seattle Computer Product's QDOS -- which was a "clone" of CP/M made for the (then new) 16-bit Intel 8086 CPU (made at a time before Digital Research released their version of CP/M-86 for Intel 8086). Back in the 1970s and early 1980s, CP/M was a "de-facto" standard -- primarily since it served as a "common ground" for application software -- that is, once you had application software that run on CP/M, and that software didn't have any hardware/firmware dependencies for a specific brand/make of computer -- that software can be run on pretty much *any* computer for which CP/M was available.
I used MS-DOS 5.0, 5.22, Windows 3.1, Windows 3.11, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows XP, Windows 7, and now Windows 10 - I am NOT happy with installing Windows 11 ... Liked your video, there is one improvement though: Before you run the SFC /scannow run the DISM ... restorehealth - because that refreshes the image to the latest version witch is used by SFC to verify the Systemfiles.
Your history with MS looks a lot like mine, except I jumped straight to DOS 6.22 (actually started on Amiga), briefly ran ME (for one week), ran Win2K for quite a while before finally switching to XP and also ran Vista before going to Windows 7. While I do have to use Windows 11 at work, because we're a computer store and it's the current version of Windows, I refuse to use it on my home PC. As for DISM, I prefer to run it in stages before proceeding to SFC. /checkhealth /scanhealth /restorehealth Checkhealth checks to see if the image reports any corruption. Scanhealth is probably duplicated with restorehealth, but follows up checkhealth with a scan to confirm if it's healthy. Then restorehealth obviously does what it says.
... the fact that i've not only used all of these but actually have batch scripts relying on them and some also providing a navigable menu for command options i often use... i feel old
For DosBox i download/unzip the choice command for a menu with checking the errorlevel in reverse order highest first. The set command of DOS is not made for user input.
Understood. Also understand this channel isn't for those of us who eat, sleep and breathe computers, it's primarily for a novice audience. Speaking of Mint, how do you like it? Considering my Linux distro options for some upcoming "migrate to Linux" videos. I'm pretty set on Mint for usability, any negatives from your end that might be worth mentioning?
@@AskYourComputerGuy Ah yes, Mint. Love it. I wiped Windows on at least 6 machines here, and put Mint on after a short trial. Then, with hardware problems on the two HP x360s I was using 2.5 years ago (when I did the switch), I received a new Framework 16 on Mau1, and put Linux Mint Edge on it. And copied all the files AND settings (email, browser history, everything), and also did my customization for Mint. Everything worked fine, even better since the FW 16 is a faster machine with 64 GB RAM and plenty of disk. I actually believe and know I have a better setup for usability for the kind of work I do, which is office type work, social media, cloud and application in the cloud work. Some of the software I have added is awesome..a lot of it is frankly. I do not currently do gaming, but may do a little if I ever get free time. It might seem crazy, but in Firefox I have 277 tabs open now. I just do too many things roughly at the same time.... I'd like to get it back down to 100 or so. LOL. I really doubt that I will ever use MS or even Apple in the future.
I still have my purchased copy of Spinrite 6.0.. Sometimes it would take 5 or 6 days to go through a Terrabyte HD. But unless there were lots of damaged sectors, Spinrite would save the partition.
Thanks for that information. Saved in YT. Do you have a text file with those commands, or do I have to go through. page by page , and create a text file?
Dos started introducing management guis where a user could define often used locations , batch scripts etc, it was around 6.1 i think , dos shell i believe was the first step above msdos. I dont know if anyone actually used it. I was just a kid who had to run everything that once i learned the dos manual on the old 4 color cga packard bell that my family had purchased, i took over to play sierra games
if you liked dos, y'all might like freedos ...i have a freedos virtual machine in virtual box with synchronet bbs software installed ...haven't got ppp or modem yet ...just going to pipe to a terminal, running sshd ...haven't messed around with it in a while
If it is not mentioned: Disk Operating System. The OS resides on disk. It was preceded by Tape Operating System, or TOS. P.S: Windows 3.1 was the first usable version of Windows. It came before Win95. With Win3.1, you had to terminate programs in the order you opened them. Failing to do so would cause a system crash, which I believe was due to a mismanaged program stack. It was not until Windows NT that it was clear that Microsoft had their act together.
NT was actually designed new from the ground up without requiring DOS elements. It introduced a new file system as well. I think they used elements of UNIX.
That's a judgement call, depends on who you ask. What's important is that there are "alternate" tools (not just Windows tools"). That was the point of the video. Thanks for your comment!
had that Crazy Blue screen. oddly was the fact there were other things like AMD Processor I7 One older even the AMD Put the system on the one that works and Device Manager open Hidden remove all of them and then install drive into new system and will process the new hardware. This is what Mostly takes place Conflicts with older processors
Something you failed to properly relate, as have many others regarding dism and sfc is that the work in conjunction. Until I learned that they are dependent I never got either to do much. They are dependent in the sense that the image that dism is managing is the source that sfc is using to compare. If the image is damage and you don't fix that first, then sfc will return that it found corrupt files but was unable to repair them. It's kind of like if you have a flat tire and you jack up the car and take off the damaged tire with out first making sure that you have a usable spare first. If you spare is flat or damaged, then you have completely wasted you time taking the first tire off the car. If you have not had much success with dism fixing problems it's probably because you did things in the right order. I totally understand this as I felt the same way about sfc not repairing files, until I learned the proper order of things. To be fair, many out there in the tech world seem to think everyone just know what they know and assume you know what order to do things in. Failing to understand that you might have lots of experience with tech, but not run into these exact circumstances. I.E. assuming you know the order.
Well the first dos GUI from m$ was windows 3.0 not windows 95, earlier versions used a text screen based interface to create the windows and objects on screen (windows 1 to windows 386)
Very useful information, only you start your video showing a blue screen, then the first thing you talk about is checking your hosts file. This will do nothing to fix a blue screen.
Not every DOS command I cover fixes every Windows issue. But having an infected hosts file is a clue to what might be causing the problem. It's a first step in diagnosis, not a guaranteed solution. I have other videos on how to resolve other Windows issues 👍
Love that Malwarebytes command. I never knew about that. I should check if others do and learn what the options are. That's the kind of things that our security programs need to have. I know Norton can be run from disk without windows at all... but sometimes there are better options.
And Windows users laugh at Linux for having command line terminals as standard The advantage is that you get some practice using the command line. But that's too much effort for most Windies.
I used Debian with a buffered frame buffer device fb0 in 1024x768x32 with a Matrox MGA 4 mb vram but no gui, just the terminal and some executable made with nasm to write directly into the framebuffer.
@bikeny good creators copy, great creators steal. There’s no trademarking ideas and, I fully support any other tech TH-camr who wants to put their own spin on content. Leo is a great guy.
as regards, the ‘Ping’ response, does the time lag depends on the number of users those have had connected with the site, and gets poorer as the users get adding on?
It absolutely can, yes. But a website like TH-cam, Google or Yahoo would have to have millions more suddenly on the platform during your test to make a noticeable difference - great question!
...DOS goes back further then win 95..goes all way back to Win3.11..I cut my PC teeth on an IBM PS2 running Windows 3.11 in DOS 6.22 environment.. quickly upgrading to Windows 98..the year was 2000/2001...at the time of windows 2000 NT going out and ME(last DOS based OS) Into XP...ah, the memories!
Yeah, I was getting all excited about maybe being able to figure out how to run After Dark Ganes again, LOL! Cause if DOS is still in there...sigh, never mind! It was just a pipe dream. I miss Mowin Maniac and Toaster Run. And dang it! Nobody came out with an updated version!
NO WINDOWS??? dude win 3.11 FWG's was the windows that anyone under DOS 6 used. Also in DOS I used Norton Commander witch turned DOS into a GUI it was the best system I had and a CPU X286 at 3MHZ lol
the first iteration of windows was windows 3.0 then 3.1 then 3.1.1 ,,these were the ones i used i didnot want to cause I WAS a DOS MAN AT THE TIME I laso worked with DOC, TOS and OS I knpw I am aging myself but athe time of the writing oct 25, 2024 I have bee using computers for 52 years (talk about a dinosor eh.!!!
FYI Windows 95 isn’t even close to being the first MicroSoft Windows operating system. Windows 95 was released 10 years after the release and use of Windows 1.0 11/1985. Windows operating systems proliferated the market for years before 95 showed up.
In MS DOS we can open, read, write and close files. If we open a file in MS DOS and regular terminate our executable with the exit function, then DOS close all open files, else a not closed file get lost if the CPU is froozen. So it is a good programming practice to close the file that we had opened as fast as possible.
Thanks for this Video , some good ones , but on using some commands it just give a demo, on the command's but didn't run them, do I have to have user, not administration Prompt?, Windows Key and X give me a list, so then Picked Command prompt (Admin) is that Why?..
Sorry, not 100% understanding your question, if you don't mind clarifying. Usually when the command doesn't "run", it's because you didn't type the switches needed (example: sfc without the /scannow option will just show some examples of how to run the command). Maybe that will help answer?
Try CTRL ALT DEL and if you can get to task manager, you can run CMD from there. The new account will remember your programs, probably very few settings. But at least you can get into Windows and start to rebuild, as well as not lose any personal files
I tried c:\windows\system32/drivers/ect/hosts it says is not recognisable as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. Please help
Could you add on the video description the command that deletes temp files as it is very long? Basically so that one can copy and paste it on his or her Command Prompt. Sorry for the second comment, but I thought this would help most viewers who are not well versed in CLIs...
A strange thing happened to my Acer laptop this morning. It was stuck on the Acer logo & would not go any further. I held down the left shift key & forced a hard shutdown, then got into the blue recovery screen, from there I restored it back & now it is working fine again. I have no idea why this happened, it was working fine last night.
Two occasions in the past in the past 5 days, I had the opposite. The computer would not shut down, with the "shutting down" spiral continuing to spin. If it happens again, I will investigate it further. (win 10 machine)
I would argue that in 2024, someone who can only access command prompt and has no other way to get their files, or check their discs for errors… Probably still pretty irrelevant. I’m sure they would see it that way.
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I started working on computers mid 80's. Started on DOS and TSR's. Retired last year...
I recently helped some young kid, get his parents PC's on the 'net using DOS cmds. He was amazed to say the least.
I also help neighbors with their machines.
Now I'm upgrading all my neighbors to W11, even if the machine doesn't meet hardware req.
I don't charge them, but i do get a lot of home-baked goodies! 🎉
Back in mid-1990s I did tech support in a call center. Anytime I got an uppity customer who thought he knew more than I did, I'd take him into DOS and troubleshoot from there. They instantly became docile and did exactly what they were told.
Shhhh! That's inside information! 😂😂😂
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lol power move 😂
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Ahhh... my best memory of the 90s were the 'Sysop from Hell' stories....
My computer usage goes back before DOS.
I started computer programming in 1966 using 80 column punch cards and paper tape.
When DOS came in it was new technology for us.
My deceased husband's father used to do that! You must be ancient! And I'm an old fart! 😂 I was 7 years old at the time.
The first program I wrote in year 11 (1977) was on punch cards run on an HP 3000 minicomputer. I didn't terminate my loop and ended up with a HEAP of printout. I learned from that experience.
@@SandcastleDreams I am 77. I left school in 1966 and started work in computers. Everyone said "Why are you doing that? There is no future in those things" 😂
@@dingokidneys Ouch! That was back when we paid for our processor usage!! My pet peeve is when I was in a hurry do didn't number my cards... well, being in a rush ya know I was gonna drop them!!
@dannybaker8030 😂
I used MS DOS on my family PC back then as a kid. Then we sold our PC and after years what I got was win 98 -> 2000 -> XP in just a few years which was quite a jump. To this day I use command prompt from time to time, lots of stuff you can only do there and also it feels quite nostalgic 😅
My experience with the various DOS goes back to 1984. I loved DOS. It was lots of fun to use.
Agreed! then when I learned how to create batch files, there was no looking back lol
When work rolled out Windows 3 in place of DOS, every morning I'd start the machine then close out of Windows to the DOS prompt. I could get everything done so much faster from there than from poking about in Windows. I finally gave that up when we moved to actual Windows versions of the office software but the command line has always remained my friend especially when I moved to Linux.
@@dingokidneys Same here. I felt I had control using the command line. A lot of errors could be pinpointed much easier than in consumer-oriented Windows, where you got a nice box telling you 'Your xyz could not be..." 😁
@AskYourComputerGuy Batch files, Key Macros, Hot Keys and Keyboard Shortcuts etc was what pulled me into the rabbit hole, lol.
When I moved from using a dedicated Music Sequencer (Roland MC- 500 mkII) to a DOS version of Cakewalk it sped up my work rate by at least 1000%. Took me a at least a decade to let go of the DOS environment and settle into working solely in the Windows environment.
That was only achieved by venturing down a second rabbit hole of tweaking Windows till I felt it was running optimally and had lost the desire to 'Phone Home' every 5 minutes.
I HATE using a mouse when I work. Keyboard shorts are way quicker.
I still use DOSBOX every once in a while to convert my old Cakewalk and MC 500 files to a format compatible with my present DAW (ProTools)
when needed.
Thanks for a great channel btw. Handy to have a resource like this for when Microsoft throws its curve balls.
Wow, this really takes me back in time. I started using PC's in 1983. We had Dos 2.1 before Windows was developed. I also used Dos 6.2 on Floppies. That's all there was for us at that time.
I kinda felt old admitting that on camera LOL
the days a working OS on a single floppy, it not going to long before a single hard-disk, SSD, will not be big enough no matter how terra-bites it has?
@@tg9754 remember Xtree Gold, such power, you could put a file on several disks, which overcame the limitation of a floppy disk. Those days desktop computers were a step into a new world, yet looking back so simplistic and limited. I remember buying a 130mb hard drive and asking the sales guy if it was big enough, to which he replied, “plenty, you’ll never fill that up”.
The most powerfull DOS command is DEBUG. I began to learn how to use debug on a 80286 CPU. Debug was the first DOS command that i used. I came from a Comodore C64 programming in assembly 6502 CPU and it was easy to switch to x86 assembly.
Today i am on an android tablet with a DosBox app installed and the emulation of x86 on an ARM CPU works great. I use DosBox to program tiny x86 executable files (using debug download/unzip) and i put all instructions into batch files for open source projects. I made some videos(no speech) to show how it works and to share the projects. Have fun.😊
Nice!
You went from DOS to Windows 95, skipping the OG Windows and then Windows for Workgroups... timeless classics.
Yeah I'm gonna catch hell for it too lol
Windows for Workgroups... Didn't that also earn the moniker "Windows for Warehouses"? 😂
@@AskYourComputerGuy I was but I will let you slide. This Time! 😉
@@AskYourComputerGuy Also Windows 3.0 and 3.1
@USBIKER26 yep 👍
This takes me back, when I built my first computer I used DOS6, I remember my first boot up with a blank screen and a, C:\ in the corner and thought now what, thanks for the memory.
Soo many Windows user should watch this video. Its full of good knowledge that can prevent a costly walk to a repair shop (or outright a purchase of a new computer). And I say this as a Linux user.
For the last point, you can use `sudo` now, also NEVER run an entire console session as Administrator/root and don´t change the Run always as Administrator setting on cmd.exe, as others (a hacker or virus) can also just use it that way.
Command Prompt is officially called Windows Command Processor, but it's also sometimes referred to as the command shell or cmd prompt, or even by its filename, cmd.exe.
Command Prompt is sometimes incorrectly referred to as "the DOS prompt" or as MS-DOS. Command Prompt is a Windows program that emulates many of the command line abilities available in MS-DOS, but it's not MS-DOS.
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Thanks for the video on this topic. I knew about dos, but had virtually forgotten about it. Not only have I learnt things from your videos, but have been reminded of others forgotten. (I'm in my late 60s and figure it's a good excuse to forget LOL) Thanks again !! 👍👍
Glad it was helpful!
I have used IBM PC Dos, MS Dos and DR Dos back in the 80s
you left out trsdos from the Trash-80's ! use edlin and revise your list ! lol
If sfc /scannow doesn't fix corrupt files, run the DISM command, then run SFC again. SFC depends on the health of the system image to fix corrupt files
I ended up writing a .cmd file that I drop into System32 (because command prompt automatically starts there by default), which runs through various DISM fixes and ends with SFC. Comes in so handy, I just do it on every computer I work on now, even if they don't need it at the time.
@Jito463 that's a great idea for future maintenance!
Where is the known good system that DISM compares mine to?
@@redfields5070 It compares to an online archive on Microsoft servers. You can restrict internet access and point it to a local install, but I prefer to just let it connect online.
In the early 90’s I had a IBM PC. No windows yet. You had to use DOS commands to do everything. I recall building a little program launcher to run Word and Lotus 1-2-3. Which i used daily.
Damn I remember Lotus 1-2-3...#flashback
@@AskYourComputerGuy I was a Quattro Pro guy...
Back then Word Perfect installed at 1.2 mb, Lotus at 1.4mb and I had a 10 mb drive!!! Woot! what does a guy do wiith all tha space?!! Leisure Suit Larry I guess...
@@dannybaker8030 I.also was a WP fan.. Also, actually got LLL out to the end ,once. LOL
@@asd67lkj I was actually a Quattro Pro guy to be honest
Great job on the video! I'm still a noob at DISM due to not needing to use it very often. Great Job! Hmmm... Maybe you should do batch next.
Heard 👍
I learned to program on an IBM mainfraime using Fortran and the WatFour and WatFive compilers, 'way back in the mid 70's. In the mid 80's I got my first personal computer - a second hand Commodore 64, where you loaded programs from floppy, or programmed your own stuff using BASIC. I also typed in the ML code for programs published in RUN magazine. My first PC was a Windows 3.11 machine - where you often had to dig into DOS to get things to work - it is still useful!
After all these years, 100% 👍
Windows 3.1 was my first O/S.
Actually Windows 3.1 was overlayed on MS Dos and you still had to boot up using an MS Dos autoexec.bat and Config.sys files.
@@johnmeneses7039 It is still there!
Win ;3.1 was about the first Win that really worked.
Same...🤜
Would you like a beer? 😂
Telling the machine what you want it to do as opposed to figuring out where someone hid that?! Too logical!
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This video was helpful, even though I already knew some of those commands. But you gave additional detail which was very good. I hope you will make that other video that you discussed (somewhere at approx 19:30) in your video, which describes copying things to a flash drive. I'd really like to have that, and I have subscribed!
Use the command line every day on multiple computers. Quickest way to get a lot of stuff done. I'm in my early forties but started using computers at a pretty young age, and it was pretty hard for me to get used to a GUI. Besides the dos-like commands that are still a part of windows, you can download some pretty useful thrid party command line utilities. One of my favourites is ffmpeg. But the list is endless -- and even moreso if you use LInux instead of windows, of course.
never thought of using the Type command in the way you describe here. That's pretty cool actually.
A neat trick if you dont' want to open a command window and want to issue a command that makes some output in a list especally is to issue the command from the run box, where you can use the > symbol to send the output to a file of your choosing.
Very true! There's tons more advanced features, but for my mostly novice audience, I tried to keep it to the basic stuff that would be most helpful for everyday needs 👍
Many of these commands can be listed by typing: help at the prompt line. Why sfc isn't listed, I don't know! But I can see why DISM isn't.
Should also note you can type: the command, then help after it. An exception is: sfc- you MUST type: help sfc for that to work!
Alternatively, just add /? after any command you want the flags for. So 'sfc /?' would show the command flags for SFC. Same with DISM, same with any of them.
@Jito463 agreed! I was planning on doing a deeper dive into command, prompt actions and definitely including that 👍
Good video, but it would've been more helpful had you put the command names next to your timestamps.
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DISM and SFC are related, run DISM first to restore health, then run SFC /scannow because that’s what SFC will use to fix files, this is why SFC fails often fails because the image is old or not working properly.
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I really love your videos. Thank you for your contribution to the world.
Wow! What a compliment!!! Thank you for the support 👍 ❤️
My last file that i made is PACMAN.BAT and it is a tiny animation for the command prompt using 3 * 8 = 24 extended ASCII used as User character bios function. The body of the PACMAN is placed inside of 2 character with 8x16 character size and each step the body move 1 pixel to the right side into a third character softly while open and close the mouth. After 8 * 3 steps we use the next right location on screen to repeat all again drawing the 3 ASCII at once, but 8 times with the next triple of character.
most common edits for me back then were emm386.bat config.sys or highmem.sys !
The modern Windows terminal is light years far from MS DOS. Most of the Windows commands not exist in MS DOS or have other switches.
Windows is running in the protected mode of the CPU and in a graphic mode of the display device, but DOS is running in the real address mode of the CPU and in the vga text mode. This is a significant difference.
The DOS user is free to use all hardware components directly without to get a message of a protection violation. But in Windows the user is inside of a (1984 knocking on your door) concentration camp surrounded with watch towers and electric barbe wires while some of the pig brothers are watching you.
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lol, nice ! Why does it sound like you just described "wolfenstein 3d" ! !
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5:35 ... It should be noted that not all versions of Windows install Ping by default. You can add it by going to Control Panel --- Programs and Features, then Windows Features and checking the "Simple TCPIP Services" item. This will enable Ping and a whole bunch of other really cool trouble shooting commands.
I wouldn't recommend doing that final tip due to security vulnerabilities. You don't want to accidentally run a command as administrator when the command you use has built-in safety limitations and actually notify you that the option you want to use needs administrator access.
Instead, use the standard command line and prefix any command that needs administrator access with the "RUNAS" command. Supply user credentials for a user in the administrators group and password after their parameter switches, and the actual command last.
Good tips. Often the profile corruption is not actually corruption but just a hiccup that prevented windows from starting up properly while loading the profile (not necessarily permanent corruption) and rather than have to start with a fresh profile and all the work getting it set up right, you can just find the path to your old profile in the registry. It will have I think from memory the word ".bak" appended to it. You just rename the key by deleting ".bak" from the name. Then restart. Probably safe to do this from a complete new profile so use your trick to setup a new profile, but don't bother setting it up just go straight to regedit and fix the path name for your previous profile. Google for more complete instructions but that's the gist of it.
Various things can cause Windows to decide the profile can't be loaded and create a new blank profile for that user as a safety measure. But the old profile including not just it's files, but it's reference in the registry is still there able to be restored.
Good point! Just trying to appeal to the novices who wouldn't have a clue how to do any of that...but you're 100% right 👍
@@AskYourComputerGuy absolutely, the commands you listed are very useful and well within the novice's reach. Just thought I'd mention about the profile fix in case any one reading decides they want to try and recover their profile without setting up from scratch. At the end of the day a blank profile is a way to get back into a working gui so a very useful tip.
@techbio excellent tip, I appreciate that and I'm sure my viewers will as well 👍
DosBox emulates a PC with intel 80386/80387 CPU, a lot of hardware components and MS DOS 5.
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Wow Scott you are a youngster :-) I go back to dos 3.1 and DR-Dps which was Digital Research Dos.. Our friend Mr Gates didn't event invent Dos. but yeah Great Video And yes... an old dog has actually learnt a new trick. SFC Keep up the good work!
LOL yes sir!
DOS was a rewrite of CPM (Control Program -for- Microcomputers) written almost a decade earlier by DEC.
@@Douglas_Blake_579 one of my earlier computers, a Commodore 128, used CPM way before I bought an "IBM" type PC....LOL We must be VERY old,
@@Douglas_Blake_579 CP/M -- Control Program/Monitor, then later Control Program for Microcomputer -- created by Gary Kildall of Digital Research in 1974 Originally made for use on computers based on the 8-bit Intel 8080/8085 CPU (as well as "workalike" CPUs like the Zilog Z-80).
PC/MS-DOS would be built from Seattle Computer Product's QDOS -- which was a "clone" of CP/M made for the (then new) 16-bit Intel 8086 CPU (made at a time before Digital Research released their version of CP/M-86 for Intel 8086).
Back in the 1970s and early 1980s, CP/M was a "de-facto" standard -- primarily since it served as a "common ground" for application software -- that is, once you had application software that run on CP/M, and that software didn't have any hardware/firmware dependencies for a specific brand/make of computer -- that software can be run on pretty much *any* computer for which CP/M was available.
I used MS-DOS 5.0, 5.22, Windows 3.1, Windows 3.11, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows XP, Windows 7, and now Windows 10 - I am NOT happy with installing Windows 11 ...
Liked your video, there is one improvement though: Before you run the SFC /scannow run the DISM ... restorehealth - because that refreshes the image to the latest version witch is used by SFC to verify the Systemfiles.
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Your history with MS looks a lot like mine, except I jumped straight to DOS 6.22 (actually started on Amiga), briefly ran ME (for one week), ran Win2K for quite a while before finally switching to XP and also ran Vista before going to Windows 7. While I do have to use Windows 11 at work, because we're a computer store and it's the current version of Windows, I refuse to use it on my home PC.
As for DISM, I prefer to run it in stages before proceeding to SFC.
/checkhealth
/scanhealth
/restorehealth
Checkhealth checks to see if the image reports any corruption. Scanhealth is probably duplicated with restorehealth, but follows up checkhealth with a scan to confirm if it's healthy. Then restorehealth obviously does what it says.
@Jito463 good tips!
... the fact that i've not only used all of these but actually have batch scripts relying on them and some also providing a navigable menu for command options i often use... i feel old
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For DosBox i download/unzip the choice command for a menu with checking the errorlevel in reverse order highest first. The set command of DOS is not made for user input.
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I appreciate this information. Thank you. 🙂
You're welcome!!!
Yeah, nothing there that I didn't know already.
I was using computers before DOS existed.
Now using Linux Mint.
Understood. Also understand this channel isn't for those of us who eat, sleep and breathe computers, it's primarily for a novice audience. Speaking of Mint, how do you like it? Considering my Linux distro options for some upcoming "migrate to Linux" videos. I'm pretty set on Mint for usability, any negatives from your end that might be worth mentioning?
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Ah yes, Mint.
Love it. I wiped Windows on at least 6 machines here, and put Mint on after a short trial.
Then, with hardware problems on the two HP x360s I was using 2.5 years ago (when I did the switch), I received a new Framework 16 on Mau1, and put Linux Mint Edge on it.
And copied all the files AND settings (email, browser history, everything), and also did my customization for Mint.
Everything worked fine, even better since the FW 16 is a faster machine with 64 GB RAM and plenty of disk.
I actually believe and know I have a better setup for usability for the kind of work I do, which is office type work, social media, cloud and application in the cloud work.
Some of the software I have added is awesome..a lot of it is frankly.
I do not currently do gaming, but may do a little if I ever get free time.
It might seem crazy, but in Firefox I have 277 tabs open now. I just do too many things roughly at the same time.... I'd like to get it back down to 100 or so. LOL.
I really doubt that I will ever use MS or even Apple in the future.
I still have my purchased copy of Spinrite 6.0.. Sometimes it would take 5 or 6 days to go through a Terrabyte HD. But unless there were lots of damaged sectors, Spinrite would save the partition.
the dev has an update for spinrite. 👍
the dev has an update for spinrite. 👍
Thanks for that information. Saved in YT. Do you have a text file with those commands, or do I have to go through. page by page , and create a text file?
Each of them can be found here, great resource!
www.lifewire.com/dos-commands-4070427
Dos started introducing management guis where a user could define often used locations , batch scripts etc, it was around 6.1 i think , dos shell i believe was the first step above msdos. I dont know if anyone actually used it. I was just a kid who had to run everything that once i learned the dos manual on the old 4 color cga packard bell that my family had purchased, i took over to play sierra games
Used Windows 3.0 iin th elate 1980s
Great tips, thanks!
You bet 👍
Another neat command is "shutdown /r /fw /t 1" This will restart to the computer Bios.
I did consider that one 👍
Level 1 Tech Support achieved.
I started with dos 4.01, then dos 6, and programmed with turbo C for dos
I had a lot of fun with 'DR-DOS' & 'Multitasking MS-DOS 4.0' with EMM386 ( loaded with the /MULTI option) before I got access to Windows NT 3.1 🤔
Nice 😂
if you liked dos, y'all might like freedos ...i have a freedos virtual machine in virtual box with synchronet bbs software installed ...haven't got ppp or modem yet ...just going to pipe to a terminal, running sshd ...haven't messed around with it in a while
If it is not mentioned: Disk Operating System. The OS resides on disk. It was preceded by Tape Operating System, or TOS.
P.S: Windows 3.1 was the first usable version of Windows. It came before Win95. With Win3.1, you had to terminate programs in the order you opened them. Failing to do so would cause a system crash, which I believe was due to a mismanaged program stack. It was not until Windows NT that it was clear that Microsoft had their act together.
NT was actually designed new from the ground up without requiring DOS elements. It introduced a new file system as well. I think they used elements of UNIX.
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@@mick-berry5331 NT: New Technology
@@mick-berry5331 NT: New Technology
@@mick-berry5331 yup, NT was for a while POSIX compatible.
अजुनही असं म्हणता येईल कां, की आधुनिक ‘Windows 11’ सारखी गणक पद्धती ही ‘DOS’ पद्धतीवरच आधारलेली आहे? फक्त अनुवादित अशी?
That's a judgement call, depends on who you ask. What's important is that there are "alternate" tools (not just Windows tools"). That was the point of the video. Thanks for your comment!
had that Crazy Blue screen. oddly was the fact there were other things like AMD Processor I7 One older even the AMD Put the system on the one that works and Device Manager open Hidden remove all of them and then install drive into new system and will process the new hardware. This is what Mostly takes place Conflicts with older processors
Something you failed to properly relate, as have many others regarding dism and sfc is that the work in conjunction. Until I learned that they are dependent I never got either to do much. They are dependent in the sense that the image that dism is managing is the source that sfc is using to compare. If the image is damage and you don't fix that first, then sfc will return that it found corrupt files but was unable to repair them.
It's kind of like if you have a flat tire and you jack up the car and take off the damaged tire with out first making sure that you have a usable spare first. If you spare is flat or damaged, then you have completely wasted you time taking the first tire off the car.
If you have not had much success with dism fixing problems it's probably because you did things in the right order. I totally understand this as I felt the same way about sfc not repairing files, until I learned the proper order of things. To be fair, many out there in the tech world seem to think everyone just know what they know and assume you know what order to do things in. Failing to understand that you might have lots of experience with tech, but not run into these exact circumstances. I.E. assuming you know the order.
Fair 👍
Great video and reminder, thanks!
My pleasure!
Well the first dos GUI from m$ was windows 3.0 not windows 95, earlier versions used a text screen based interface to create the windows and objects on screen (windows 1 to windows 386)
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Very useful information, only you start your video showing a blue screen, then the first thing you talk about is checking your hosts file. This will do nothing to fix a blue screen.
Not every DOS command I cover fixes every Windows issue. But having an infected hosts file is a clue to what might be causing the problem. It's a first step in diagnosis, not a guaranteed solution. I have other videos on how to resolve other Windows issues 👍
Thank you great information l didn't know know about cmd you can do keep it coming
Glad it helped!
I remember having fun with Win 03 and WFWG
I just have nightmares (literally) about OS2/Warp. Weren't those good times? LOL
@@AskYourComputerGuy Indeed!
Those were the days, huh?
@@AskYourComputerGuy Indeed! Playing with expanded and extended memory.
@Redlined997_C2S OMG yes! Having to allocate one and another...those wee the days, huh???
I always add lines to the hosts file. It's to stop programs phoning home. My Hosts file has more than a few lines, more like 500.
Same here, but we are both experts. My videos are made for a more novice crowd who likely doesn’t have, or shouldn’t have, a crowded host file.
It's not a secret. It's not "underground." It's a good thing it's there!
For most Windows users, it's more of a secret if they don't know it exists or how to use it 👍
Windows 10/11 is still layered on DOS.Sigh. OS/2 was the right way. All new. Now we have Linux. Great.
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I think I may still have my dos3.1 install disks lying around here somewhere
Nice! They might be worth some $ if still good LOL
Flight simulator,hitch hikers guide to the galaxy, and many more on floppy disk 5.25 and 3.5 inch
You owe me a beer and a painkiller 😂 I’m old enough to remember computers when the didn’t have a gui….
Fine 😂
Love that Malwarebytes command. I never knew about that. I should check if others do and learn what the options are. That's the kind of things that our security programs need to have. I know Norton can be run from disk without windows at all... but sometimes there are better options.
Agreed! Glsd you found it useful 👍
keep tyhe commands on the screen longer so we can copy them into a file. very helpful info.
I appreciate that. Noted for future reference 👍
Command line interpreters are usually called shells nowadays. This may be handy for the viewer to know.
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And Windows users laugh at Linux for having command line terminals as standard
The advantage is that you get some practice using the command line.
But that's too much effort for most Windies.
I used Debian with a buffered frame buffer device fb0 in 1024x768x32 with a Matrox MGA 4 mb vram but no gui, just the terminal and some executable made with nasm to write directly into the framebuffer.
Command # 2 reminds me of the scenes in The Hunt For Red October when the 2 subs are communicating. "Give me a ping, Vasily. One ping only, please."
LOL that was absolutely my inspiration for including that. One of my favorite films ever!!!
@@AskYourComputerGuy There must be something in the water or the air because ASK LEO just posted a video on the command.
@bikeny good creators copy, great creators steal. There’s no trademarking ideas and, I fully support any other tech TH-camr who wants to put their own spin on content. Leo is a great guy.
as regards, the ‘Ping’ response, does the time lag depends on the number of users those have had connected with the site, and gets poorer as the users get adding on?
It absolutely can, yes. But a website like TH-cam, Google or Yahoo would have to have millions more suddenly on the platform during your test to make a noticeable difference - great question!
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He forgot this one... 🤣
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Command prompt is an emulator? When did that happen? It's a command interface like terminal in linux and macos.
...DOS goes back further then win 95..goes all way back to Win3.11..I cut my PC teeth on an IBM PS2 running Windows 3.11 in DOS 6.22 environment.. quickly upgrading to Windows 98..the year was 2000/2001...at the time of windows 2000 NT going out and ME(last DOS based OS) Into XP...ah, the memories!
Yes I did know - because I grew up with Windows 3.1, lol.
When running cleanup image restore health how will u know if there was a file thT was corrupted will it give u a % where the file was found
Unfortunately, no.
what happen to windows 1 2, 3, 3.11, and even dosshell, that taged on some of the later ms-dos'es,
I remember dos in the early 80s and playing infocom games
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Actually, it's NOT DOS. It will run some DOS commands, but you CANNOT run ANY DOS programs in it.
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Yeah, I was getting all excited about maybe being able to figure out how to run After Dark Ganes again, LOL!
Cause if DOS is still in there...sigh, never mind! It was just a pipe dream. I miss Mowin Maniac and Toaster Run. And dang it! Nobody came out with an updated version!
@@SandcastleDreams Dosbox can´t run those games?
@@CathrineMacNiel Evidently not! Maybe Linux genius can figure out how to make Linux version?
NO WINDOWS??? dude win 3.11 FWG's was the windows that anyone under DOS 6 used. Also in DOS I used Norton Commander witch turned DOS into a GUI it was the best system I had and a CPU X286 at 3MHZ lol
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Can you provide a list of these commands?
www.lifewire.com/dos-commands-4070427
the first iteration of windows was windows 3.0 then 3.1 then 3.1.1 ,,these were the ones i used i didnot want to cause I WAS a DOS MAN AT THE TIME I laso worked with DOC, TOS and OS I knpw I am aging myself but athe time of the writing oct 25, 2024 I have bee using computers for 52 years (talk about a dinosor eh.!!!
Us dinosaurs have to stick together! 😂
Dos was stable, windows emulates stability by using a world of memory, Linux can run on a fraction of memory .
thanks!
Welcome!
FYI Windows 95 isn’t even close to being the first MicroSoft Windows operating system. Windows 95 was released 10 years after the release and use of Windows 1.0 11/1985. Windows operating systems proliferated the market for years before 95 showed up.
My friend, 34 is not sooo old 😂 and I used windows 3.1 and 3.11 before windows95..
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Any tips for how to do a clean shutdown if the PC freezes?
Press and hold the power button for 10-30 seconds
In MS DOS we can open, read, write and close files. If we open a file in MS DOS and regular terminate our executable with the exit function, then DOS close all open files, else a not closed file get lost if the CPU is froozen. So it is a good programming practice to close the file that we had opened as fast as possible.
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I think no "clean" shutdown is possible if the Windows PC is froozen.
True
DOS, DOSSHELL. That was my era. This is why Linux is child's play for me. Commands are pretty much the same. WIN 3.11 was meh.
You sure got the comments and replies a humming👍 - 👍
Happens every time I mispeak...every expert in the world feels they need to point it out 🤷♂️
@@AskYourComputerGuy And I thought it was due to the subject matter. 🤔
@ethimself5064 maybe that too. Everyone is an expert
Thanks for this Video , some good ones , but on using some commands it just give a demo, on the command's but didn't run them, do I have to have user, not administration Prompt?, Windows Key and X give me a list, so then Picked Command prompt (Admin) is that Why?..
Sorry, not 100% understanding your question, if you don't mind clarifying. Usually when the command doesn't "run", it's because you didn't type the switches needed (example: sfc without the /scannow option will just show some examples of how to run the command). Maybe that will help answer?
DEBUG on an 8088 is about as far back as I go on PCDOS 1.0.
Thank you
You're welcome
DOS the main part of Windows 95
Are you sure it’s DOS and not CPM 😉
I saw CPM from time to time but never had occasion to use it. It was pretty much unused by the time I got involved.
If I cannot login to Windows, how do I get to a command prompt to run net user for a new account? Will this new account remember all of my settings?
Try CTRL ALT DEL and if you can get to task manager, you can run CMD from there. The new account will remember your programs, probably very few settings. But at least you can get into Windows and start to rebuild, as well as not lose any personal files
Poor copy con is always forgoten.
Would have been nice if you had made CHAPTERS Boss
There are time stamps in the description 👍
I tried c:\windows\system32/drivers/ect/hosts it says is not recognisable as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. Please help
Could you add on the video description the command that deletes temp files as it is very long? Basically so that one can copy and paste it on his or her Command Prompt. Sorry for the second comment, but I thought this would help most viewers who are not well versed in CLIs...
I will try to grab that today if I can, what I would suggest is to just pause the video and type it as shown. I’ll see what I can do.!
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Yes, that is a good alternative 👍 Keep uploading awesome stuff 😁
In MS DOS we can use DELTREE and MD to delete the folder and make a new folder. But Windows is crazy and use to much folder for temp files.
A strange thing happened to my Acer laptop this morning. It was stuck on the Acer logo & would not go any further. I held down the left shift key & forced a hard shutdown, then got into the blue recovery screen, from there I restored it back & now it is working fine again. I have no idea why this happened, it was working fine last night.
Short answer
Windows
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Two occasions in the past in the past 5 days, I had the opposite. The computer would not shut down, with the "shutting down" spiral continuing to spin. If it happens again, I will investigate it further. (win 10 machine)
@@AussieD7902 I have had that happen to my PC once or twice. I just thought it may have been doing something. I'm from Australia too.👍
@@Nick41622 G'day fellow Aussie. I have had a computer that wont start on the odd occasion, this was the only times one wouldn't shut down.
@@AussieD7902 G'day fellow Aussie to you too. I think sometimes PCs seem to have a mind of their own.
The telephone modem to connect to play doom , the Ti 99 4a, Commador , Timex sinclar ,Atari home computer
When I am troubleshooting over the phone and tell someone to open a command window, they always say, "Wow, old school black window."
LOL
no... it's not "dos" anymore.. they didn't just change the name... I'm really tired of people still spreading this nonsense
Ok. But for novice users, the verbiage doesn't really matter. It's the command options that actually matter.
@@AskYourComputerGuy then call it the commandline/terminal!
This would have been really cool to know and RELEVANT - back in 1988 😂
I would argue that in 2024, someone who can only access command prompt and has no other way to get their files, or check their discs for errors… Probably still pretty irrelevant. I’m sure they would see it that way.
I thought Windows 3.0 was the first true DOS GUI?
I could have been wrong on which version...thankfully it's not relevant to the video LOL - already catching hell from "old timers" about that 😂