Command Prompt and Windows PowerShell are also simple and built-in options covered in this post for this purpose. We have already seen how to open a file or folder using Command Prompt or PowerShell.

This article is about using MS-DOS command prompt to find files on the computer. It also show some of the MS-DOS commands.

Do you have a batch file that must run as admin? Use this trick to save some extra steps on Windows 11.

You can open the Command Prompt on a PC by right-clicking the Start icon, by searching for it, or by opening the Windows System folder.

Open the folder containing the batch file, right-click on the batch file > Show more options. Click Edit on top of the context menu in order to open the batch file in your default text editor.