For all of you who think that the Command Prompt that the Windows operating system has is boring, we can tell you a series of curious tricks that will change your mind or discover functions that you did not expect.
The Command Prompt, which is present in Windows 11 and in previous versions, is one of those unknown parts for many, with too many reminiscences of the past for others, as well as boring and almost useless for a good number of users.
We are not going to deny that it is the last thing we can see inside Windows that reminds us of what MS-DOS was, but we do have to disagree on its usefulness, since the possibilities it offers are almost infinite, it had an enormous scope, something that many ignore.
But not everything stops there, because it can even be fun to use the Command Prompt or at least much more curious than what we could imagine.
Let’s see several unexpected, funny and even strange features which hides the Command Prompt.
Windows Command Prompt Tricks and Trivia:
Customize the appearance
Although it may seem strange to you, the command prompt can be customizedboth the background color, the name of the tab, search for texts and more.
To do this, you must do the following:
We entered the system symbol typing that same thing in the search area of the taskbar and clicking on Open when the option comes out. We click with the right button on the Command Prompt icon in the upper left corner of the screen. We will see how we can select Color (to change the color of the command prompt), Change tab name, duplicate tab, split table, export text y Look for (to search for a certain text).
window title
We can change the title of the window with a command and, furthermore, in an extremely simple way.
To do so we must put title and then the word or phrase that we want to appear in the header of the Command Prompt window.
It has a limited utility, but it is true that it is a curious function and that few people know about the Windows Command Prompt.
Where your data goes
This is a fun and interesting trick, since it can be used for networking and problem solving.
The command tracert, followed by an IP address or a website, will display a list of where our connection is bouncing to on the way to that address. It’s really curious see all stops that our connection makes when it goes to the destination that we have set for it.
The normal thing is that the Internet configuration of our house sends us to several addresses related to the ISPto later depend on where we are going to go, since each website transfers the data in a different way of traveling, very marked by where the page itself to which we are going to finally arrive is connected.
Turn off the computer
We will also be able to turn off the computer thanks to the Command Prompt, something that can come in handy if there is an incident that does not allow Windows to do it and we do not want to force it using the physical button on the device.
To turn off the computer we must put the following command: shutdown /s. If what we want is to restart the computer at that precise moment, what we are going to have to write is: shutdown /r
This way of turning off the computer may not be practical, but sometime it could come in handy, so, as they say, “knowledge does not take up space”.
Imagine that this curious Command Prompt trick is the one that allows you to shut down or restart your computer when you have a problem. Then it won’t seem so trivial anymore.
Star Wars
This is a really different trick and one that will generate a lot of curious looks when we show it to someone. To see Star Wars in Command Prompt, we need to enable a service called Telnet.
If we have Windows 10 or 11, we press the keys Win + Qwe wrote telnet and then we select Turn Windows features on or off.
After that we go down to the entrance Telnet clientbox that we must check, to then click on Accept and closing the window.
We enter the Command Prompt again and execute the following commands, pressing Enter after each one:
telnet telehack.com starwars
Then all that remains is to enjoy looking at the screen, since we will have the story of Star Wars Episode IV totally fabricated using ASCII, something curious, fun and, for many users, even entertaining.
command prompt aquarium
If we continue to use Telnet we can not only have Star Wars on the screen, but more possibilities. As soon as we start with the command telnet telehack.comwe see that there are many more options, but the one that we are going to see next is, possibly, the one that is best achieved.
Most notable next to the ASCII recreation of Star Wars is the command aquarium.
If we put this command as we did in the previous case (instead of putting starwars) we will see an ASCII aquarium that could even be used as a screen saver.
with all these tricks you will have witnessed that the Windows Command Prompt It has many practical functions for configuring and managing the operating system, as well as others that are very curious.
That means that the Windows Command Prompt can surprise you much more than you could expect with these curious tricks. The truth is that fun can be found in highly unlikely places.
