help

• Applies to:

  ✅ Windows Server 2025, ✅ Windows Server 2022, ✅ Windows Server 2019, ✅ Windows Server 2016, ✅ Windows 11, ✅ Windows 10, ✅ Azure Local, versions 23H2 and 22H2

Displays a list of the available commands or detailed help information on a specified command. If used without parameters, help lists and briefly describes every system command.

Syntax

help [<command>]

Parameters

Parameter	Description
<command>	Specifies the command for which to display detailed help information.

Examples

To view information about the robocopy command, type:

help robocopy

To display a list of all commands available in DiskPart, type:

help

To display detailed help information about how to use the create partition primary command in DiskPart, type:

help create partition primary

Related links

• Command-Line Syntax Key