Monday, October 31, 2016

How To Enable Copy Paste In Command Prompt – Windows

Windows usually don't provide Copy text and Paste it in Command prompt or Copy text from Command prompt and Paste it elsewhere. Normally this copy features is disabled even when you right-click on the text in cmd. You cannot even select the required text by dragging with the mouse on the text. To enable Copy Paste in Command prompt of Windows just check the Quick Edit Mode in CMD properties.


How To Enable Copy Paste In Command Prompt – Windows

Enabling copying and pasting texts in Windows command prompt advantages you by allowing you to copy any command that on the internet or from word or excel files and paste it directly in CMD and execute the command as it is.



Here are the steps to enable Copy Paste in CMD- Windows

Enabling Copy text and Paste the text in CMD on Windows can be made by checking the Quick Edit Mode in Edit Options of CMD properties.

Step1: Open Command Prompt on Windows by typing cmd in the run command (Windows key + R) or just type Windows + X and click on the command prompt. Command Prompt pops up.

How To Enable Copy Paste In Command Prompt – Windows

Step2: Place your cursor on the top of the command prompt, right-click and click on the properties option. Command prompt properties window pops up.

How To Enable Copy Paste In Command Prompt – Windows

Step3: Check the Quick Edit Mode box under Edit options and press OK. 

How To Enable Copy Paste In Command Prompt – Windows


Step4: This enables you to copy the text from CMD or anywhere else using Ctrl+C keys and Paste it by just Right click using your mouse on CMD. The text is automatically pasted in CMD.

How To Enable Copy Paste In Command Prompt – Windows

                    This irritating problem with the windows command prompt is made easy. Use this feature to copy and paste text in CMD.



This doesn’t limit to copying text. You can even copy files and folders path and paste in command prompt. This is how you can fix this problem.

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