ron, i don't follow you on this. could you elaborate?
There's lots of different ways to add a "Command Prompt" item in
explorer's context menu for Win XP when you right click on a folder.
One example is a .reg file like this:
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REGEDIT4
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\Command_Prompt]
"EditFlags"=hex:01,00,00,00
@="Command Prompt"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\Command_Prompt\command]
@="C:\\WINNT\\system32\\Cmd.exe %1"
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(Copy and paste the part between the cut lines into notepad and save
the file as (filename).reg then double click or merge the key into
the registry.
There are MANY variations of the above .reg file if you google for
"command prompt context menu"
If you really are not comfortable with editing the registry yourself,
you can go here:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx
Halfway down the page you'll see "Open Command Window Here"
description and a download link on the right to a M$ powertoy to do
the job for you.
There are also other freeware shell extensions that will add that
capability and other neat functions to windows explorer.
However you do it, when you right-click a folder in explorer, a
command prompt window opens, already set to that directory as the
current directory. After that you can execute whatever DOS commands
you want, including "DIR." When I suggested typing the following:
dir>dir.txt
It executes the DIR command then redirects the output ">" to a file
called dir.txt (or whatever) in that directory. You can use the
command line switches (for a list, type DIR/?, or for a list in the
form of a text file, type dir/?>dir.txt) to format the output to suit
your needs.
