How to Enable Copy and Paste in Command Prompt in Windows 7/8/8.1

How to Enable Copy (Ctrl+C) and Paste (Ctrl+V) in Command Prompt in Windows 7/8/8.1

By Default Windows do not allow users to Copy text and Paste it in Command Prompt or Copy text from Command Prompt and Paste it elsewhere. But there is an option in CMD itself to enable Copy & Paste Text.
Today in this tutorial we will learn how to Enable Copying and Pasting Texts in Windows Command Prompt. One of the main advantage of this will be that you can copy any command that you find on the internet or from any word/excel file and paste it directly in CMD and execute that command just like that.

Steps of How to Enable Copy and Paste in Command Prompt-

Step:- 1. Open CMD, Just simply type CMD in search or Press Win + X key to select Command Prompt. Or you can open it in All Programs menu of Start.

Step:- 2. Right Click on the Title of the CMD window and Select Properties just like its shown in the below Picture. 

Step:- 3. You will see a Pop up Window coming up, Now on the Right hand side, Under Edit Options, Just Check Quick Edit Mode and click OK.

Paste text into an MS-DOS window

To paste text, click your right mouse button and select Paste.