Windows 10 Preview removes command prompt

[p37307]

Windows 10 is phasing out the command prompt in the latest Preview.

How will this affect the way we do things, run scripts, etc, if any, in NPVR? I don't use Powershell so I don't know much about it.

Command Prompt has been around for as long as we can remember, but starting with Windows 10 build 14971, Microsoft is trying to make PowerShell the main command shell in the operating system.

As a result, PowerShell officially replaces the Command Prompt in the Win + X menu, so when you right-click the Start menu, you’ll only be allowed to launch the more powerful app. Additionally, in File Explorer’s File menu and in the context menu that appears when pressing Shift + right-click in any folder, the old Command Prompt will no longer be available.

Typing cmd in the run dialog will launch PowerShell as well, so Microsoft has made a significant step towards phasing out the traditional Command Prompt.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/microsoft...0328.shtml

[johnsonx42]

I doubt it will change anything. they can't get rid of cmd.exe, too much would break. all they're doing is changing some of the menus. annoying, but no big deal. (and it's a virtual guarantee that there will be regedit files immediately available to put the command prompt back into the menus it's supposed to be in)

[mvallevand]

I wonder how many current users still remember when it was the "DOS Box"

Martin

[ACTCMS]

I remember when the whole screen was a "DOS box"...

Alex

[mvallevand]

To go back further I remember when there was no 2D box the "screen" was a 40x1 line. 80x1 was such an improvement. For nostalgia I just went to a 32 bit machine loaded edlin config.xml.

Martin.

[ACTCMS]

For nostalgia I just went to a 32 bit machine loaded edlin config.xml.

When I feel really nostalgic, I open Kedit - takes me right back to VM/370 and CMS (which is where the CMS in my screen name comes from)

Alex

[Graham]

When I feel really nostalgic, I open Kedit - takes me right back to VM/370 and CMS

You youngsters are so very lucky ... I remember when DOS was an operating system that ran on a computer that was driven using a golf ball typewriter.

[p37307]

You youngsters are so very lucky ... I remember when DOS was an operating system that ran on a computer that was driven using a golf ball typewriter.

My first computer was an ibm 5051. I still have the heavy bulky thing in the attic. It costed $3000 from the IBM store, no hard drive or modem. Hundreds of big floppy disks. Excited when the smaller ones came out and the eventual hard drive. I remember getting excited to buying a 100mb hard drive. (still have it). Everything was DOS.

[martint123]

To go back further I remember when the screen was a line of 16 LEDs and the keyboard a row of 8 switches.

[gEd]

To go back further I remember when the screen was a line of 16 LEDs and the keyboard a row of 8 switches.

Switches? Luxury.