CmdHere Power Toy for Vista?

[me]

Does the CmdHere Power Toy exist for Viista? This was highly useful
for XP.

 

[MICHAEL]

* (e-mail address removed):

Does the CmdHere Power Toy exist for Viista? This was highly useful for XP.

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/use-command-prompt-here-in-windows-vista/
A very popular registry hack for Windows XP was the "Command Prompt Here" hack, that would
automatically open a command prompt window in the directory that you had clicked on.

Windows Vista includes this ability right out of the box, it's just not immediately obvious,
because it's hidden behind a shortcut key.

To activate this, just hold down the Shift key when you right-click on a folder, and you should
see the Open Command Window Here menu item


http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2006/09/18/windows-vista-secret-1-open-command-prompt-here.aspx


-Michael

 

[Tom Dacon]

The old one from earlier OS's such as XP works just fine in Vista. Under the
hood, Vista is Windows Server 2003 SP1, so most of its use of the registry
is the same as that OS. So it happens that for CmdHere, what worked for XP
worked also in Windows Server 2003, and then worked as well in Vista.

Tom Dacon
Dacon Software Consulting

 

[Synapse Syndrome]

The old one from earlier OS's such as XP works just fine in Vista. Under
the hood, Vista is Windows Server 2003 SP1, so most of its use of the
registry is the same as that OS. So it happens that for CmdHere, what
worked for XP worked also in Windows Server 2003, and then worked as well
in Vista.

While that is true in general, in this case there is no point in adding that
context menu entry, as it already there when you press SHIFT.

ss.

 

[Val]

Note that what Michael says opens the command window in the pointed-to
folder.

To open a command window, at the current folder, shift+right click in an
open area of the currently opened folder.

Val


* (e-mail address removed):

Does the CmdHere Power Toy exist for Viista? This was highly useful for
XP.

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/use-command-prompt-here-in-windows-vista/
A very popular registry hack for Windows XP was the "Command Prompt Here"
hack, that would
automatically open a command prompt window in the directory that you had
clicked on.

Windows Vista includes this ability right out of the box, it's just not
immediately obvious,
because it's hidden behind a shortcut key.

To activate this, just hold down the Shift key when you right-click on a
folder, and you should
see the Open Command Window Here menu item


http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2006/09/18/windows-vista-secret-1-open-command-prompt-here.aspx


-Michael

 

[MICHAEL]

This may also be of use;

Just like every other version of Windows, you can edit the registry to add the Open Command
Prompt Here to the right-mouse click menu. Copy and paste the following text into Notepad, save
it a a .reg file, then simply double-click the .reg file and import it into the registry:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Folder\shell\Command Prompt]
@="Open Command Prompt Here"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Folder\shell\Command Prompt\command]
@="Cmd.exe /k pushd %L"


More info here;
http://www.winhelponline.com/articles/113/1/

Extended info here;
http://www.randyrants.com/2007/02/vista_tip_eleva.html


-Michael

* Val:

 

[Synapse Syndrome]

This may also be of use;

Just like every other version of Windows, you can edit the registry to add
the Open Command
Prompt Here to the right-mouse click menu. Copy and paste the following
text into Notepad, save
it a a .reg file, then simply double-click the .reg file and import it
into the registry:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Folder\shell\Command Prompt]
@="Open Command Prompt Here"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Folder\shell\Command Prompt\command]
@="Cmd.exe /k pushd %L"

But why? What is the point of this? It only makes your context menus
longer, and saves you the bother of pressing SHIFT. But who is *that* lazy?

ss.

 

[MICHAEL]

* Synapse Syndrome:

This may also be of use;

Just like every other version of Windows, you can edit the registry to add
the Open Command
Prompt Here to the right-mouse click menu. Copy and paste the following
text into Notepad, save
it a a .reg file, then simply double-click the .reg file and import it
into the registry:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Folder\shell\Command Prompt]
@="Open Command Prompt Here"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Folder\shell\Command Prompt\command]
@="Cmd.exe /k pushd %L"

But why? What is the point of this? It only makes your context menus
longer, and saves you the bother of pressing SHIFT. But who is *that* lazy?

ss.

I tend to agree, but there are many folks that love their mouse and have
no patience with learning shortcut keys.... even very simple ones.
For most users, it is a point and click world. ;-)


-Michael