Question: I'm studying IT and in my current class am learning the basic MS-DOS commands (CD, DIR, TREE, etc...). At the school, I'm using Windows 7, and I don't know how, but I'm still able to run the old EDIT command in DOS.

However, in my Windows 8 (64-bit version) laptop I'm not able to run this command. I know that it's kind of silly to ask for that once I can use a common text editor like Notepad or [Notepad++](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notepad%2B%2B), but only as a way to recreate the environment hat I have in class I'm looking for a way to use the EDIT command.

I've heard some people talking about DOSBox or ExDOS as a solution, but I don't know them.

Answer: 
While it will work differently (definitely the EDIT utility will not be the same), you can [download a ready-made FreeDOS](http://virtualboxes.org/images/freedos/) virtual machine and run in VirtualBox. 

Or, if you have the access, install a 32-bit Windows in a virtual machine and run it there.
There IS an edit.com in Windows 10.

This is the way to get it:

* Open a DOS window and click at the top to get a menu: 
As I am French, the menu is in French.
* Click "Properties" (the last line); You get another menu.
* Just tick the box at the bottom (in French: "Utiliser l'ancienne console", in English probably "Use the old console")

That's all. Click OK. Close the window and re-open a DOS. It looks slightly different. Type "Edit" and there it is.