If you're tired of staring at the DOS-like void

Many of us started out in the DOS era or even earlier, before the advent of graphical user interfaces. Since the early days of Macs and Windows machines, there has been a consistent push to hide the "ugly" and obscure command prompt from the average user.

In a modern operating system like Windows 10, most people will never see or even know about this direct connection to the heart of the operating system.

Power users, on the other hand, live and die by the command prompt to perform certain tasks. If you know what you're doing, you can use the command prompt to quickly diagnose problems or make sweeping, in-depth changes to the system.