Command line shortcuts on folder and drives.

3 Comments Published July 2nd, 2006 in Lifehacks, Windows Tags: .

If you use a lot the command line shell you may like to have a “Run Command Prompt from this folder/drive” context menu on explorer:

Run Command Prompt from this drive

How to do that? Registry hacking:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\\Directory\\shell\\CMDShortcut]
@="Run Command Prompt from this folder"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\\Directory\\shell\\CMDShortcut\\command]
@="C:\\\\WINDOWS\\\\system32\\\\cmd.exe /k cd \\"%1\\""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\\Drive\\shell\\CMDShortcut]
@="Run Command Prompt from this drive"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\\Drive\\shell\\CMDShortcut\\command]
@="C:\\\\WINDOWS\\\\system32\\\\cmd.exe /k cd \\"%1\\""

Just create a file called CMDShortcut.reg including the above content then doubleclick on it. That’s all.

I tryed to use %SystemRoot%\system32\cmd.exe instead of the actual path, but it didn’t work. Anyone knows why?

3 Responses to “Command line shortcuts on folder and drives.”

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1 Aleksey Gopachenko Jul 5th, 2006 at 00:19

There is a “Command Prompt Here” powertoy from MS. It works for any folder.
2 luigi Jul 5th, 2006 at 00:48

Thankyou. I didn’t know, I’ll check it out. I think, it does something like this.
3 Stef Dec 4th, 2007 at 23:43

Thanks mate!