Open command prompt for specific folder using Windows Explorer (Command To Here)

I often find myself in the situation where I wish to open a commandprompt in a certain folder, so I don’t have to add my folders to the system path variable.

I like to have a “Command to Here” menuitem when I right-click on a folder in Windows Explorer.

This is how it can be done. It can be done in several other ways as well, but this is my favorite:

1: Click the Windows start button and hit “Run”, and enter “regedit” to start editing the registration database

2: Go to “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Classes/Folder/Shell”.

3: Create a key and call it “Command Prompt”.

4: The default value should be whatever you want the text to be in the menu when you right-click a folder.

5: Within “Command Prompt” make a new key named “command”

6: Set default value to “cmd.exe /k pushd %1″

This menuitem appears immediately

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