The Windows Command Prompt and many of the commands within it may seem boring or even useless at first glance, but as anyone who has ever used the Command Prompt can tell you, there's a lot to love!

These tricks will get you excited about many of the mundane sounding command prompt commands like telnet, tree, or robocopy. Okay, robocopy sounds pretty cool.

Some of these Command Prompt tricks are special features or fun uses for the Command Prompt itself, while others are just fun or relatively unknown things you can do with certain CMD commands.

Almost any command can be stopped with the abort command: Ctrl+C.