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• Click the Control-menu icon and choose Close from the Control
menu.
• Double-click the Control-menu icon.
If you are running a character-based program in the Command
Prompt window, you should use the program's normal exit
command to terminate the program before attempting to close the
window and end the Command Prompt session. However, if you
are sure that the program doesn't have any unsaved files, you can
safely and quickly close it using one of the last three methods in
the preceding list. A dialog box appears asking whether you really
want to terminate the program.

Starting Command Prompt at a Particular
Folder

You can add a nifty shortcut-menu command to the folder file type
that will allow you to right-click any folder in Windows Explorer
and start a Command Prompt session with that folder as the current
folder:
1. In Notepad or another plain-text editor, create a file with the
following data:
Windows Registry Editor
Version5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\
shell \Crnd Here]
@="Command &Prompt Here"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\Crnd
Here\command]
@="cmd.exe /k pushd %L"
2. Save the file as Cmdhere.reg.
3. Double-click Cmdhere.reg and answer the confirmation
prompt.
These steps create the new registry values.

Cmd.exe vs. Command.com
Cmd.exe is Windows 2000's command processor. Command.com,
the 16-bit command processor of MS-DOS days, is still supported,
but unless you have a legacy application that requires it, you
should stick with Cmd.exe. You can run external MS-DOS