The command prompt is a console on windows operating systems that controls your computer, from it you can do anything on your computer, and saves the hard work finding where to launch it from normally
The cmd prompt can also let you control your network (lan or wlan). You can remotely shutdown someone elses computer on your network, or message anyone or everyone on your network for example. It is also the only way to find your internal ip address, which you need to host a game
Apart from thes tasks, you can also schedule your computer to do anything, or even put it in an executable file, so you can click and it happens. As a developer i truly understand how important the command prompt is
Here, you can find a complete site with all the info you could want on windows command prompt
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