How to use Windows Command Prompt (CMD) more effectively.

Start CMD:
Windows-R | cmd
Start | Windows Sytem | Command Prompt
Rt. click Start | Command Prompt [(Admin)]
Windows-X | Command Prompt [(Admin)]
C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe

Right click the icon now in the taksbar 
 click "Pin to Taskbar"  so it's quicker to start.

Right click the desktop icon (or menu option?) 
"Run as administrator"   to be able to do everything in CMD.

Mouse wheel scrolls.

***  Command history available by Up and Down arrow keys.
ESC clears the command line.
HOME and END go to beginning and end of line.
No need to go to end of line to hit ENTER.
TAB filename completion.

Right click CMD's title bar, choose Properties and/or(?) Defaults:
  Options tab: turn on QuickEditMode..(It's ON now by default.)
  Font/Layout/Colors tabs: experiment with sizes so that entire width of screen used.
     Screen Buffer Size's Width and Window Size's Width should be the same 
        so that horizontal scrolling not ever needed.
     Screen Buffer Size's Height can be set to 1000's for long scrollback.
     Try a TT (TrueType) Bolded font.  A high-contrast color scheme is best (black/white)?

 QuickEditMode (ON now by default.) enables mouse drag select, 
   then COPY by hitting ENTER key or Ctrl-c.
        PASTE by mouse right click or Ctrl-v.
 Can copy/paste from/to CMD to other text-based apps like Notepad, web browser etc
 
 Options | Text Selection | de-select Enable Line-wrapping Selection

DOS commands:
 cd            current folder
 cd some\other\folder     change folder
 cd e:\folder\subfolder
 dir           folder listing
 type fname    display text file
 more fname    display text file page at a time
 date
 path          list of folders searched for a command
 Change PATH:  Windows-X | System | Advanced system settings | Environment Variables... | 
                 System variables  PATH  Edit... add at end  c:\myfolder\subfolderEtc
               Restart cmd

Tab filename completion.

echo %path% %prompt% %random%