command history

A tiny function-key shortcut has survived from the DOS era into modern Windows, and it can eliminate one of Command Prompt’s most tedious habits: repeatedly pressing Up Arrow to find a command you ran several entries ago. Pressing F7 in a compatible cmd.exe session opens a numbered...

I got Windows 7 Starter with one of those woot netbooks not too long ago, and I've been working to customize it to my comfort level. Probably the most annoying piece is that when I use the "Run" dialogue, either by using the start menu, or by hitting win-r, it comes up with no command history...