Command Prompt Here

Summary

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.

Detail

  1. Open Windows Explorer
  2. Choose Tools→Folder Options...
  3. Switch to the File Types tab
  4. Select Folder from the list and press the Advanced button.
  5. Choose New
  6. Give it a nice name like "Command Prompt Here" and the application c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe /K cd "%1"
  7. 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.