Windows – How to disable the command prompt’s auto-close upon completion

Depends on what you mean by "quit something"; within Windows cmd:

Ctrl+Z sends the EOF character, which could terminate a process if you're providing input, but otherwise will probably do nothing.

Ctrl+C normally sends SIGINT to the foreground process, which should terminate it, but programs can respond however they like - ie, they can catch the signal but then ignore it. The command can also be remapped to other jobs (such that for a specific program it doesn't really send a signal) or ignored entirely.

Ctrl+Break always sends SIGBREAK, which again should terminate the process, but unlike Ctrl+C cannot be remapped, but can still be ignored. This is probably what you need.

Here's a source: MSDN article: CTRL+C and CTRL+BREAK Signals.

After much searching, I have a solution: Use Powershell. It is an advanced command-line tool with scripting language and is available on Windows 7.

Just type power into search on start and click the powershell icon (as illustrated). It might take a second to boot but it is a good utility.

Here is tabbing (cycling) through alphnumeric folders...

P.s. Changing the functionailty of the command-line completion on ordinary CMD does not seem to be an option. You can only turn it on or off. The other alternative is to download a different SHELL (Console2 for instance) but Powershell works fine and should do all you need. For the name alone "PowerShell", it is pretty cool ;-)