Today I'm going to cover 3 pretty cool cmd prompts for windows; while a few may be semi-pointless, they are still cool nonetheless.
1- Watch Star Wars episode IV.
Yes, you read that right, you can actually watch Star Wars episode IV in the command prompt, though it will be in ASII. To do that, all you need to do is go over to Control Panel > Program and Features > Turn Windows feature on or off, and check the option for Telnet Client. Once that has been done you will need to open the cmd prompt and type telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl. hit enter, and voila. That's probably one of my favorite tricks you can do with the cmd prompt; although it's pretty much pointless, it is fun.
2- change the color of the background and text
This one is pretty cool actually, every time I open a cmd prompt I end up using it. So for this you're just going to enter the command "color (corresponding letter or number for the color you want)" For instance, if you want to change the text to green and leave the background black you would type "color a" whereas you would type "color 2" to change the background to green. To get a full list of colors and corresponding numbers and letters just type "color help" and hit enter
3- function keys uses
these following uses of the function keys in a cmd prompt are INCREDIBLY helpful and I definitely recommend you learn them.
F1: Pastes the last executed command (character by character)
F2: Pastes the last executed command (up to the entered character)
F3: Pastes the last executed command
F4: Deletes current prompt text up to the entered character
F5: Pastes recently executed commands (does not cycle)
F6: Pastes ^Z to the prompt
F7: Displays a selectable list of previously executed commands
F8: Pastes recently executed commands (cycles)
F9: Asks for the number of the command from the F7 list to paste
Hopefully these cmd prompts are useful and I hope that you enjoyed this article, thank you for your support !
