Hyper-V Server or Server Core Command Prompt Window

Posted on September 21, 2009 by

Problem:
You’ve closed your command prompt window on Hyper-V Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 Core Installation and need to re-open it:
blankscreen

Solution:
Start Windows Task Manager by pressing Ctrl & Shift & Esc. Click File>New Task:
taskmanager

Type cmd.exe and click ok:
run

You now have a new command prompt window:
cmd

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About Mike F Robbins

Senior Systems Engineer and Technology Consultant with over sixteen years of professional experience providing enterprise computing solutions for educational, financial, healthcare, and manufacturing customers.
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4 Responses to Hyper-V Server or Server Core Command Prompt Window

  1. Pefbeara says:
    December 12, 2009 at 13:58

    uh… thanks for text.

    Reply
  2. P.A.M. says:
    December 18, 2009 at 18:52

    mm.. bookmarked ))

    Reply
  3. Alex says:
    September 29, 2010 at 05:21

    Phew…. thanks for the help

    Reply
  4. Les says:
    February 22, 2011 at 04:14

    Also works if you have a RDP connection to the server. However you need to be running in full screen mode for the key combination to be sent to the server not your local machine. (Assuming that is the way that you have your options set.)

    Reply

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