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{{short description|Shell for Windows NT and other operating systems}} {{distinguish|COMMAND.COM}} {{Other uses|CMD (disambiguation){{!}}CMD}} {{Redirect|Command Prompt|the concept|Command prompt}} {{Lowercase title}} {{use mdy dates|date=January 2024}} {{Infobox software | name = Command Prompt (cmd.exe) | logo = Command prompt icon (windows).png | logo_size = 48px | screenshot = | screenshot_size = 100px | caption = Command Prompt in [[Windows 11]] | developer = [[Microsoft]], [[IBM]], ReactOS contributors | released = {{Start date and age|1987|12}} | other_names = Windows Command Processor | replaces = [[COMMAND.COM]] | operating system = {{Plainlist| * [[Windows NT]] family * [[Windows CE]] family * [[OS/2]] * [[eComStation]] * [[ArcaOS]] * [[ReactOS]]}} | platform = [[IA-32]], [[x86-64]], [[ARM architecture|ARM]] (and historically [[DEC Alpha]], [[MIPS architecture|MIPS]], [[PowerPC]], and [[Itanium]]) | genre = [[Command-line interpreter]] }} '''cmd.exe''', a.k.a. '''Command Prompt''', is a [[shell (computing)|shell]] [[computer program|program]] on later versions of [[Windows]] ([[Windows NT|NT]] and [[Windows CE|CE]] families), [[OS/2]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.tavi.co.uk/os2pages/cmd.html|title=Notes on using the default OS/2 command processor (CMD.EXE)|website=www.tavi.co.uk}}</ref>, [[eComStation]], [[ArcaOS]], and [[ReactOS]]<ref name="ReactOS" />. In some versions of Windows ([[Windows CE .NET 4.2|CE .NET 4.2]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/embedded/ms879823(v%3dmsdn.10)|title=Command Processor Shell (Windows CE .NET 4.2)|website=Microsoft Docs |date=June 30, 2006 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220831154120/https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/embedded/ms879823(v%3dmsdn.10) |archive-date=August 31, 2022}}</ref> [[Windows CE 5.0|CE 5.0]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/embedded/aa453925(v%3dmsdn.10)|title=Command Processor Shell (Windows CE 5.0)|website=Microsoft Docs |date=September 14, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220828195757/https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/embedded/aa453925(v%3dmsdn.10) |archive-date=August 28, 2022}}</ref> and [[Windows Embedded CE 6.0|Embedded CE 6.0]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/embedded/ee499728(v%3dwinembedded.60)|title=Command Processor Shell (Windows Embedded CE 6.0)|website=Microsoft Docs |date=2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220905191436/https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/embedded/ee499728(v%3dwinembedded.60) |archive-date=September 5, 2022}}</ref>) it is referred to as the '''Command Processor Shell'''. Implementation differs between operating systems, but with significant consistency of behavior and available commands. Older, related operating systems, [[DOS]] and [[Windows 9x]], provided {{mono|[[COMMAND.COM]]}} as the shell. {{mono|cmd.exe}} replaced {{mono|COMMAND.COM}} in the Windows product line with the introduction of NT. Current versions of Windows include [[PowerShell]] as an alternative shell that runs side-by-side with {{mono|cmd.exe}}. The initial version of {{mono|cmd.exe}} for Windows NT was developed by Therese Stowell.<ref name="Zachary_1994">{{Cite book |title=Showstopper! The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft |author-first=G. Pascal |author-last=Zachary |date=1994 |publisher=[[Free Press (publisher)|The Free Press]] |isbn=0-02-935671-7 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/showstopperbreak00zach}}</ref> [[Windows CE 2.11]] was the first embedded Windows release to support a console and a Windows CE version of {{mono|cmd.exe}}.<ref>{{Cite book|author=Douglas McConnaughey Boling|year=2001|title=Programming Microsoft Windows CE|edition=2nd|publisher=[[Microsoft Press]]|isbn=978-0735614437}}</ref> The ReactOS implementation of {{mono|cmd.exe}} is derived from FreeCOM, the [[FreeDOS]] command line interpreter.<ref name="ReactOS" />
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