Playing with DOS and Mastering the DOS Posted by Stranger on 6:12 AM Digg it Bookmark it Stumble it Email to friend

1. Change the color scheme of the DOS Window

Command is = "color 07"
color bf - where b is the background color while f is for the foreground color
color f0 - it will produce a cmd as white background and black color for typing
To revert to the original color scheme, type color without any arguments.

2. Change the Title of the Window to reflect the current time

Do you know that you can put your name or your blog address in the title of the command prompt window. That’s like a neat watermark when you are using that screenshot for your website.

title your_name %time%

eg title Vaseem %time%

That %time% will append the current timestamp to the Window’s title.

3. Navigate the Command History using Keyboard

If you have a long list of commands in the history, press the function key F7 to navigate through the history list using the arrow keys.

And if you already know the command number, press F9 and directly type that number. Very useful if you have to run some command repeatedly.