Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Open Command prompt from right click (context) menu on selected folder


Add Open Prompt from here.. shortcut to Context Menu

To create Open Command Prompt from here.. for all folders and drives

Open your registry editor and create the following key.

Go to Key:

My Computer -> HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT -> Directory -> Shell
Under Shell create new key “cmd"
Add the “Default” string value “reg_sz” as “Open prompt from here.."

Under "cmd" create new sub key “command"
Add the “Default” string value “reg_sz” as “cmd.exe /k "cd %L" "

Do Same for Drives

Go to Key:

My Computer -> HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT -> Directory -> Shell
Under Shell create new key “cmd"
Add the “Default” string value “reg_sz” as “Open prompt from here.."

Under "cmd" create new sub key “command"
Add the “Default” string value “reg_sz” as “cmd.exe /k "cd %L" "

Or just copy paste following command in run command or in .bat file (batch file) and run it.

reg add "hkcr\Directory\shell\cmd" /v "" /t "reg_sz" /d "Open CMD from here" /f
reg add "hkcr\Directory\shell\cmd\command" /v "" /t "reg_sz" /d "cmd.exe /k \"cd %%L\"" /f

reg add "hkcr\Drive\shell\cmd" /v "" /t "reg_sz" /d "Open CMD from here" /f
reg add "hkcr\Drive\shell\cmd\command" /v "" /t "reg_sz" /d "cmd.exe /k \"cd %%L\"" /f

and You have done it...

1 comment:

yashodhan said...

Hi,
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