Opening Cmnd Prompt in given folder

I seem to recall a method for opening command prompt from IE such that it opens in the selected folder. Can't remember how. Is my memory right?

Chuck

 

You probably meant Windows Explorer and not Internet Explorer, but anywho...the following is taken from http://www.winscriptingsolutions.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=13571.

A Powertoy, Command Prompt Here, can be downloaded from Microsoft (and is also included with the resource kit, cmdhere.inf), however all this does is update a couple of registry entries and can be accomplished manually allowing greater flexibility

1. Start the Registry Editor (regedit.exe)
2. Move to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell (you could use HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell but it would then not apply to folders, whereas Folder does both)
3. From the Edit menu select New - Key and enter a name of CmdHere (or anything else)
4. Under the new key select New - Key and enter a name of command (lowercase)
5. Under the key (CmdHere) double click on (Default) and enter a name that will be displayed when you right click on the directory, e.g. "Command Prompt Here "
As an extra, if you a & to the front of a character it will cause it to be underlined, e.g. "&John Prompt here" would produce John Prompt here.
6. Move to the command key and again double click on (Default) and enter
\System32\cmd.exe /k cd "%1 "
e.g. c:\winnt\System32\cmd.exe /k cd "%1 "
You can use "%l" instead of "%1" which will support long file names.
7. Close the registry editor

 

Hulka,

Thanks a lot. Just what I needed. It makes a great difference in practice.

Chuck

 

You're quite welcome.