Starts a new instance of the Windows/NT command interpreter
CMD [/X | /Y] [/A | /U] [/Q] [[/C | /K] string]
/C Carries out the command specified by string and then terminates
/K Carries out the command specified by string but remains
/Q Turns the echo off
/A Causes the output of internal commands to a pipe or file to be ANSI
/U Causes the output of internal commands to a pipe or file to be Unicode
/T:fg Sets the foreground/background colors (see COLOR /? for more info)
/X Enable extensions to the Windows NT version of CMD.EXE
/Y Disable extensions to the Windows NT version of CMD.EXE
Note that multiple commands separated by the command separator '&&'
are accepted for string if surrounded by quotes
Command Extensions are enabled by default. You may also disable
extensions for all invocations of the command processor by setting the
following value in the registry to 0
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor\EnableExtensions
The command extensions involve changes and/or additions to the following
commands:
DEL or ERASE
COLOR
CD or CHDIR
MD or MKDIR
PROMPT
PUSHD
POPD
SET
SETLOCAL
ENDLOCAL
IF
FOR
CALL
SHIFT
GOTO
START (also includes changes to external command invocation)
ASSOC
FTYPE
To get specific details, type HELP commandname to view the specifics.