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I frequently find myself with a folder open in Windows, wishing to have a command prompt open with the same working directory.

I am aware of Power Toys 'Command Prompt', but that only works as a context menu item on the folder, and not from inside the folder if you are already there. I know you can navigate to the parent directory, and use it from there, but if the parent has thousands of directories in it, this is not so convenient. I have tried some home-brewed batch files associated with folder actions in explorer, but those suffer from similar problems.

So, what is the quickest way to open a command prompt with a working directory of the current windows explorer folder?

My current approach: (horrible)

• Alt - D, Ctrl - C (copy path)
• Win - R, 'cmd', Enter (start command prompt)
• 'cd', Space (start a change directory command)
• Alt - Space, e, p (paste directory)
• Enter (execute change directory)

I know there is something better! What is it?

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Hold Shift while Right-Clicking a blank space in the desired folder to bring up a more verbose context menu. One of the options is Open Command Window Here. This works in Windows Vista, 7, 8, and 10. Since Windows 10 Creators Update, the option has been replaced with Open PowerShell Here. However, there are ways to enable Open Command Window Here again.

Palecclawrclawr

Just type 'cmd' to location bar, that's it. It will start a new command prompt in current path.

This solution was confirmed to work in Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8 and 10 (including Creators Update).

Keystrokes to move the focus to the location bar:

• AltD in English (pointed out by Tim Stewart in the comments)
• AltE in German

Palecdr. evildr. evil

Inside your current folder, simply press Shift+Alt+F --then-->Enter.

The prompt will appear with your current folder's path set.

Note: That works only in Windows 7 / Vista. What it does is that drops the 'File' menu down for you, because the 'Shift' key is pressed the option 'Open command window here' is enabled and focused as the first available option of 'File' menu. Pressing enter starts the focused option therefor the command window.

Edit:

In case you are in a folder and you already selected some of its contents (file/folder) this wont work. In that case Click on the empty area inside the folder to deselect any previously selected files and repeat.

Edit2:

Another way you can open terminal in current directory is to type cmd on file browser navigation bar where the path of current folder is written.

In order to focus with your keyboard on the navigation bar Ctrl+L. Then you can type cmd and hit Enter

Right-click the title-bar icon of the Explorer window. You'll get the current folder's context menu, where you'll find the 'command window here' item.

(Note that to see that menu item, you need to have the corresponding 'power toy' installed, or you can create the right registry keys yourself to add that item to folders' context menus.)

Rob KennedyRob Kennedy

As a very quick solution I can give you this. I tested this on Windows 8.1

1- Find File and Right Click on Command Prompt on File Explorer and then add command prompt to your Quick Access Toolbar:

2- After adding it you can access the folder from here:

That will open a command prompt in there for you.

On vista and windows 7:

• Alt+d -> it will put focus on the address bar of the explorer window
• and then, type the name of any program you would launch using WIN+r
• hit Enter

The program will start with its current directory set to that of the explorer instance.e.g.:python, ghci, powershell, cmd, etc..

For Windows vista and Windows 7 ,to open the command prompt 1) go to folder you want to work

2)In address bar type- cmd

press enter

it will open the command prompt for that location

You can edit the registry to add the Command Prompt item to the context menu. Here are a couple of .reg files that I use.

Cmdhere.reg - for WinNT/2000/XP/Vista/7:

Doshere.reg - for Win9x:

Copy this into an empty text file and change the extension to .reg. Double-clicking on this in Windows Explorer will add these key to the registry.

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I use StExBar, a Windows Explorer extension that gives you a command prompt button in explorer along with some other cool features (copy path, copy file name & more).

EDIT:I just found out (been using it for more than a year and did not know this) that Ctrl+M will do it with StExBar. How's that for fast!

palehorsepalehorse

Almost the same as yours:

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• Alt+d, Ctrl+c
• Win+r
• cmd /K cd , Ctrl+v, ENTER

Sam MeldrumSam Meldrum

If that's so bothering, you could try to switch to windows explorer alternative like freecommander which has a toolbar button for that purpose.

Gennady ShumakherGennady Shumakher

I use a lot the 'Send To' functionality.
I create my own batch (.bat) files in the shell:sendto folder and send files/folders to them using the context menu (to get there just write 'shell:sendto' in location bar).
I have scripts to perform all sort of things: send files by ftp, launch a php server in the current folder, create folders named with the current date, copy sent path to clipboard, etc.
Sorry, a bit offtopic but useful anyway.

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Create a shortcut to cmd.exe in %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%Links, open its file properties and change the field 'Start at' to %1 ('Iniciar en' translated from spanish).

Now drag folders to it and you'll see the magic. It works too in all standard Open File dialogs. wow!

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This solution also work for background menu:http://www.roggel.com/NGNeer/BackgroundCMD/

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• Open up windows explorer

• Tools ->Folder Options.

• File Types Tab

• Select the Folder file type

• Click Advanced

• Click New

• For the Action type what ever you want the context menu to display, Iused Command Prompt.

• For the Application used to perform the action usec:windowssystem32cmd.exe (note on win2k you will want to specify the winnt directory instead of the windows directory)

Use the following in command prompt to open your current location in windows explorer:

C:your-directory> explorer .

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Is there a way to start windows 'explorer' process from command line?

Because of some problem in my Vista OS, explorer process crashes frequently (i can not see TaskBar after that) but using the open windows i can access the cmd.exe ( ctrl+alt+delete does not work). If there could be a command to start 'explorer' process again or to start the Task manager then that would help a lot.

Thanks

Edit: explorer command starts the explorer process, but alt+ctrl+del is still not working, any help?

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I use task-manager. Click. File ->Run new task and write explorer. You can start task manager by pushing Ctrl + Shift + Esc. The method I described works for me when explorer crashes.

antzshrekDavidDavid

A good thing to try for more stability is in Explorer > Folder Options and check the option for 'Launch folder windows in separate processes'. That way a crash in one explorer shouldn't take out all other windows.

Chris WChris WSandeep BansalSandeep Bansal

You can create a shortcut to C:WindowsSystem32taskmgr.exe

Synetech

Sandeep Bansal wrote

'Win + R and then Type EXPLORER'

No, this will open one instance of windows explorer window, this doesn't start the explorer process, say, if we have killed the explorer from task manager or from batch file using 'taskkill'.

Windows Explorer From Command Line

I have seen 'start explorer' command in a batch file, which, the developer of that file says, should start explorer as a process, but that also is just opening a new instance of explorer window in my w10, and not starting the overall process.

the developer of the batch file maintains that this is the correct command to start the explorer process and, he says, there should be some setting in my box that is preventing this command to start explorer as a process.

You can r&d with this.

Internet Explorer 11 For Windows 10

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