I am a die-hard command-line fan. Even with tab-completion of long file names, it is still a pain to navigate around. This is a tip to get a "Command Prompt Here" menu item in the context menu of Windows Explorer.
Tools
→Folder Options...
File Types
tabFolder
from the list and press the Advanced
button.New
c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe /K cd "%1"
OK
, OK
and OK
to save it.Credit to PDF Hacks. I'd seen a little .reg file to do this, but I really don't like running them.