What if you need the same commands for the next use of CMD window, but you do not know which commands you executed before? When you close it, all commands will be gone with no mark of history. You can only view the history of commands as long as your CMD window stays open. Or you can also Copy and Paste the commands from the history that has appeared on your screen, within the CMD window. Use Up and Down arrow to select the command. As you typed, all the commands which you typed latterly are shown to you in your CMD window. Open CMD from the Start Menu and type “doskey /History”. That’s why I am giving you an easy and clean way to see the history of your Command Prompt window.

To have the entire list of your Command Prompt window’s commands, on the window as a text, you have to type the following command in your CMD window.īecause sometimes, you do not like pop-up windows all the time. For example, if the command number 3 is the one I have to run again and again, I will press F9 key, type 3 and then press Enter.

Why does my command prompt pop up