If you wanted to open a program, you had to type the name of the program into the command line. Today, you can simply click or touch an icon on your screen to perform most actions.

If you want to uninstall a program using Command Prompt in Windows 11/10, then you can do it via WMIC utility and some simple commands.

Dear Lifehacker, I'm familiar with the Unix command line on Linux and OS X, but I've recently switched to Windows and the Command Prompt (cmd.exe) feels, well, kind of crappy. How can I make it a ...

Command line arguments are extra commands you can use when launching a program so that the program's functionality will change. Depending on the program, these arguments can be used to add more ...

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The "open" program is specific to OS X and lets you basically drag and drop a file with the -a command onto an application. This way it overrides the per-user OBJ open-with settings.