Copy Files Using Command Prompt Here is How

Most of you might think that this is the most useless tutorial we ever made, but sometimes think like this can be really useful. One of the case where something like this might become useful is when your delete key misbehave, which happens to our friend, windows explorer is useless because it will only cause a windows prompted and asked to delete the program, when things like this strike this knowledge will be really handy.

1. Opening Command Prompt

The simplest way to open command prompt is by pressing the windows button + R, this will open run and then what you need to do is type cmd.exe and then press enter. Just a second after that command prompt will show up and the first thing that command prompt display will be the directory of the user.

2. The Command

Command Prompt
After you open command prompt it will display the directory of the user
  • If you wanted to change directory just type cd ( The directory adress ), if I want to acces D:\Some Random Crazy Folder, I will need to type "cd D:\Some Random Crazy Folder" and then press enter. 
  • After changing the directory you might wanted to check what is inside the directory, to do this you just need to type "dir" and press enter. 
  • If you want to copy the files in the directory type the name of the file and then followed by the directory you wanted to copy the file into, ex. "copy technozzz.png F:\" 
  • If you want to copy all files you just need to insert "*" ex. copy "*.png" will copy all files with .png extension
This is a short tutorial so I wanted to make this short, I will post the video tomorrow where you can watch it on youtube to give you a better understanding about how to copy files using command prompt. Don't forget to check out our latest tweaks, about overclocking graphic card

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