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How to turn on autocomplete in the Windows Command Prompt.–PC Pitstop.<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n

AutoComplete Windows Command Prompt<\/h4>\n

by The Windows Club<\/p>\n

If you are a Windows power user who frequently needs to use the Command Prompt regularly, then you find it useful to turn on auto-complete in Command Prompt. If you want to make the change permanent, you will have to edit the Windows Registry.<\/p>\n

File name completion and folder name completion are quick-search features of the Windows command processor or cmd.exe. Auto-complete for CMD.exe is not enabled by default in Windows \u2013 you have to enable it.<\/p>\n

Enable AutoComplete in Command Prompt<\/strong><\/p>\n

You can activate auto-complete permanently or for the current session only.<\/p>\n


\nActivate auto-complete in CMD temporarily<\/strong><\/p>\n

To activate auto-complete in CMD for the current user for the current command session, open Run box, type cmd \/f<\/em><\/strong> and hit Enter. The \/f<\/em><\/strong> switch, enables or disables file and directory name completion characters.<\/p>\n

Now press Ctrl+D to complete the folder name or Ctrl+F to complete a file name. Keep pressing this key combination and see the file names change.<\/p>\n

To deactivate automatic complete, type cmd \/f:off<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Article Continued Here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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