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Open Command Window Here in Vista

Dave Ingham posted a comment to my last post about things I missed in Vista, and pointed me to a couple of very useful but hidden features in the explorer window.
If you shift-right-click on a folder in an explorer window, you will see two incredibly useful menu items added to the menu:
  1. Open Command Window Here...
  2. Copy as Path

I've always installed a .reg file to add 'Command prompt here' to the right click menu, but now it's built in, sweet! Thanks for the tip, Dave.

Posted Apr 16 2007, 06:09 PM by fritz-onion
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Keith Brown wrote re: Open Command Window Here in Vista
on 04-17-2007 7:07 AM
Now we just have to figure out how to change it from CMD.EXE to POWERSHELL.EXE so the thing that opens up is actually useful :-)
Osman Santos wrote re: Open Command Window Here in Vista
on 04-18-2007 9:05 AM
I've always used the PowerToys for Windows XP, one of them is Open Command Window Here Powertoy

From the website:
"This PowerToy adds an "Open Command Window Here" context menu option on file system folders, giving you a quick way to open a command window (cmd.exe) pointing at the selected folder."
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

There are others interesting utilities as well.

Osman
Paul Stubbs wrote Vista Tips: Copy as Path for Vista
on 05-01-2007 12:20 PM
As a developer one of the features that I used daily was to drag files from Windows Explorer onto a command
Sri Raguraman wrote re: Open Command Window Here in Vista
on 06-02-2007 7:33 AM
Also see this url: http://www.petri.co.il/add_command_prompt_here_shortcut_to_windows_explorer.htm

For me in Vista, the last option of using the registry worked.
Sri Raguraman wrote re: Open Command Window Here in Vista
on 06-02-2007 7:35 AM
Ignore my last comment.. I came to this page through a google search and didn't read all its contents...

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