How To Open Any File in Command Prompt

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You can open any file video,audio,notepad,image and any other file in the command prompt.Command prompt is the comman line interface of Windows.We now see how to open command prompt.Click on your start menu of your task bar and press cmd in the run and open it.Command prompt opens and will look like



By default the path in the prompt is set to C drive i.e you will see  this C:\>

Then you have to enter the path of the file i.e the address of the file in double quotes like this “C:\Folder name\File.ext” and then press enter you will get your file opened by the default program you are using for the file in your system.

And to change the drive from C to D you have to type ‘d:’ with out the quotes.

To Open a new notepad file in the command prompt be in any folder and type ‘notepad’ without quotes and press enter ..

To Open a new paint file press ‘mspaint’ without quotes and press enter and you will get your paint window.