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With today's streamlined operating systems, it's easy to use a computer without ever worrying about entering old-school text commands in the command line. However, it's a smart idea to become very familiar with command line basics in Windows. It helps you appreciate the operating system more and can come in handy for some useful tasks. You Gain Greater Control over System Functions. Perhaps the most obvious reason to learn the command line is for its original function: greater control. There are commands accessible only via shell that can control very complex operations on Unix/Linux and Windows machines.