Thursday, December 24, 2009

Opening a Command Prompt to a Particular Directory from Explorer

If you want to open a command prompt to a directory that is selected in the Explorer:
  • Start Regedit
  • Go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT \ Directory \ shell
  • Create a new key called Command
  • Give it the value of the name you want to appear in the Explorer. Something like Open DOS Box
  • Under this create a new key called command
  • Give it a value of " cmd.exe cd %1 " (no quotes)
  • Now when you are in the Explorer, right click on a folder, select Open DOS Box, and a command prompt will open to the selected directory.