Can you surf the web by using command prompt?

Answer 1

I just want to know if you can surf the internet with a command prompt?.

No, there is no Internet browser built-in to Windows Command Prompt. But there is a text-only browser called Lynx that runs on CMD; after you have downloaded it, you can run it on CMD and browse the web. There is also another browser called Arachne, which also runs on CMD and supports a wide variety of images, videos and other media.

Map a Network Drive from CMD

net use x: \\SomeServer\SomeShare

Try these commands:

- net /?

- net use /?

- net help use

Answer 2

easiest way to do it is

start http://www.Google.com

or you can do it like this

explorer http://www.Google.com

http://www.Google.com is the parameters for the explorer command. which basically tells the computer to open the website in explorer.exe. alternatively you can use iexplorer.exe but they both work.

if your using something like firefox or chrome you have to supply the file path to the program. example

c:\program files\firefox\firefox.exe http://www.Google.com

i don't think that's the correct path tho. and if you save that command to a text document with a .bat extention you can just open up the file and it autromatically does it for you