Command Prompt on Right-Click

Many computer users, specially the programmers, need to launch a command prompt window every once in a while to execute some dos/shell commands. The problem is, when a command prompt window launched, the default path is normally the system path or the user profile's path. The users will then have to do all the "cd" commands to change the directories to the path he/she wants.

This trick shows you how to add an option called "Command Prompt" when you right-click on a folder in Windows. With this option, a Command Prompt Window will launch and its current directory will be the path to the folder you've selected.

Here's what you'll get:

 The Solution

 You can either edit your registry OR download the registry file and apply it on your computer.

 Method I. Manually edit the registry:

Start > Run

Enter "regedit" and hit Enter

Expand to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Folder\shell"

Right-click on "shell" and select New > Key

Make sure a new key is created under "shell". Change the name of this key to "Command Prompt"

Right-click on this new key "Command Prompt" and select New > Key

Change the name of this key to "command"

Here's what we should have:

Double-click on the "(Default)" text on the right window to bring up the edit box
Enter this text into the Value Data field:
cmd.exe "%1"
Click OK and close the registry.


Method II. Download and apply the registry file:

Download this registry file Here
Unzip it to a temp folder, then double-click on the .reg file to add the registry data.