Right Click to Open Command Prompt in Directory

Right Click to Open Command Prompt in Directory

Here's a handy tip from Microsoft Visual C# .NET Step by Step. It creates a shortcut in the right click context menu of Windows Explorer to open a command prompt in the current directory. When I need to run scripts in a very long directory name, this is very handy.

So here's how you set it up:

• Open up windows explorer
• Tools -> Folder Options.
• File Types Tab
• Select the Folder file type
• Click Advanced
• Click New
• For the Action type what ever you want the context menu to display, I used Command Prompt.
• For the Application used to perform the action use c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe (note on win2k you will want to specify the winnt directory instead of the windows directory)