
Detours across the Windows user interface are avoided. The advantages of command-based control are obvious: through Windows shutdown commands, you save yourself mouse clicks and don’t have to surf through menus. For shutting down your computer, another program addresses the command line tool: the “ shutdown.exe”, for example, shuts off the computer immediately after the program is called up, restarts it or logs off the current user.

Behind the designation there is ultimately an executable program: the cmd.exe, which provides a line for the command input (the actual prompt). The Windows command prompt is a powerful tool from the old days of MS-DOS which today still accepts countless commands for special purposes.
