Opening a Command Prompt in the Current Folder

If your anything like me you'll hate having to browse to a specific folder, sometimes 5 folders deep, in a command prompt. Thankfully Microsoft have made it possible in Vista and Windows 7 to open a command prompt in a windows folder.

You just browse to the folder as you normally would in Windows, then holding SHIFT you right click in the folder and you'll see 'Open Command Windows Here' in the list. Choose this option and a command prompt will open with is directory in this folder. Wonderful!

If you want to do this in Windows XP you'll need to do a few things first.

1. In explorer, open Tools, Folder Options.
2. Select the File Types tab.
3. For Windows XP: Go to (NONE)      Folder.
4. For Windows 2000: Press n to scroll to the N/A section.
5. For Windows NT/98/95: Press f to scroll to the Folders section.
6. Select the entry labeled Folder
7. For Windows 2000/XP: Press Advanced button.
8. For Windows NT/98/95: Press Edit button.
9. Select New
10. In the action block type "Command Prompt" without the quotes.
11. In the app block type "cmd.exe" without the quotes.
12. Save and exit Folder Options

Easy!