Version 6.1 is installed on my Windows 7 computer.
For Servers the graphical desktop is not installed automatically; it has to be explicitly added after the Server software/OS has been installed. For Windows, a special stripped down version is known as Server Core. For Server 2008 Server Core cannot have a graphical desktop but for Server 2012 you can add it later.
Yes. cmd.exe will allow you to execute shell commands and scripts, although you should consider using the newer Powershell instead if your version of Windows supports it.
Any version of Windows does not support DOS OS.. It only gives us the DOS shell.. However you can check the version by "ver" command in DOS prompt..
The shell is made up of several subsystems that all operate in user mode. The kernel, or core, of the OS is responsible for interacting with hardware. It has more power to communicate with hardware devices than the shell has, and operates in kernel mode.
You should be able to download the Unix Services for Windows, version 3.5, from Microsoft (free). There are other shell emulators that are available for Windows, which would allow you to use Unix type shell scripting without installing any additional OS. Your question about "virtual UNIX" is unclear ..
Windows shell commor is also known as Windows shell common. This term refers to a type of command that allows you to access folders through the desktop or command search.
MS-DOS 6.22 was the last stand-alone version of MS-DOS. Some believed that MS-DOS 7.0 was the last version of MS-DOS since Windows 95 reported MS-DOS as MS-DOS 7.0. However, this was just a shell in Windows and not a stand-alone version of MS-DOS.
how do I enable power shell that is disabled
CMD.exe
A Unix shell can be obtained in Cygwin, a Unix compatibility layer used to compile Unix programs and run them on Windows. Microsoft also makes a shell known as "Windows PowerShell" which incorporates more Unix-like features than the standard command prompt.
cmd
No, the SPB shell which is available at the Windows Marketplace cannot be downloaded directly to the HTC HD2 phone.