Resolved How to get Command Prompt onto right-click?

I have disabled Powershell, checked its status and it reports Disabled. However, when I hold down Shift key and right click, only Powershell is there. How do I get Command Prompt back into my right-click menu?

 

Not sure why you would disable PowerShell. It is much better than the ancient command prompt, which is why MS is moving to PS and it does not use up any resources just sitting there unused.

That said, disabling PowerShell does not remove the reference to it in your right-click context menu.

All is not lost, however. If you want to add "Open command window here" to the context menu, see this.

 

Thanks for the reply and the link; I'll check it out.

Removing Powershell from the context menu is not the main problem. The fact that Command Prompt is NOT there is. However, when I disabled Powershell on all my other systems, Powershell did disappear altogether and Command Prompt replaced it.

I have a specific problem with Powershell that that popped up a couple of days ago when I was setting up a temporary machine to fill a gap while I replace my main machine which died a few days ago.

I installed Firefox and Thunderbird and needed to change the location of my profile folders from their defaults. I opened the folder where Firefox.exe is located (C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox) and opened Powershell via the right-click menu and typed firefox.exe /profilemanager and pressed Enter on the keyboard and I got an error message that says words to the effect that firefox is not recognized. The same happened with Thunderbird when I typed thunderbird.exe /profilemanager at the C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Thunderbird prompt.

I checked the logged folder in Powershell's window and the syntax and all was correct. Then I used Command Prompt to perform the same operations, they executed without error.

Another puzzling thing. If I have disabled Powershell and I have checked its status and it reports that it is indeed disabled, why does it still run from the right-click menu? Not a problem, really, but strange.

 

That might have been a timing issue - that is, it depends on the version of Windows 10. The latest versions of W10 remove the command prompt context menu item.

I have no clue about your firefox/thunderbird issues - that is WAY out of my wheelhouse. As for your puzzling disabled PS issue, does it still show disabled after you run it from the right-click menu? I am wondering if starting it with the right-click menu enables it again.

 

No, running it does not re-enable it.