A few years back Microsoft released a Groovy little PowerToy which added the ability to easily open a CMD window to a specific folder using the default Windows Explorer right-click context menus. It’s called the "Open Command Window Here" or also known as the CMDhere tool. It’s one of the first tools I install when I build a new box so I figured it would make a great little How To for all you Groovy Readers. Just follow the step-by-step below
and you should be up and running in just a matter of minutes.
The first go download the tool. You can find it here. Once downloaded launch the CMDhere install and follow the step by step screen snips below:
When your done, your Right Click Context Menu will look like this:
Very Groovy for your CMD line users out there!
Tags: client, cmdhere, powertoy, windows xp
Very cool. Didn’t know that even existed. Thanx dude.
you can also do this from Tools –> folder options –> File types –> (None) Folders –> Advanced –> New. Give action name “command prompt” and action as “cmd.exe”