CMD

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.

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