Comments on: Command prompt shortcut

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 11:32:47 +0000

Try:
cmd.exe /k “cd %L”

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 10:51:46 +0000

One issue I found was directory paths with longer than 8 letters show up with the ~1, in place of the extra letters (as in C:\DOCUME~1\ADMINI~1\Cookies). This was an old windows problem (when folders could only be 8 characters long). If you manually navigate to the path today, you get the full path name…

By: breichelt

breichelt — Thu, 12 May 2005 06:52:57 +0000

I’m definitely going to look into the power tools, it seems like they have a lot of great little time savers, thanks for all the suggestions!

I was going to create a .reg file and make it available for download from the post, but I couldn’t get my ftp working, so I had to go without it

By: rlewallen

rlewallen — Thu, 12 May 2005 06:21:05 +0000

Awesome. I exported that key entry and now don’t have to remember where it goes, I can just merge the .reg file.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 12 May 2005 06:08:04 +0000

I created a .reg file with these settings to make it a no-brainer to install. I can’t post an attachment here, but you can save the following to a .reg file, double-click it, and you’re done:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\Command Prompt\command]
@=”cmd.exe /k \”cd %1%\”"

-Michael

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 12 May 2005 05:30:27 +0000

You should really instll the interesting bits of both windows 95 power toys AND XP power toys.

I use “command here”, “file name to clipboard” and “send to any folder” almost every day.

I did remove alot of the default win95 email “send to” items

And it should be LAW to have note pad (well notepad2 really) in your send to.

Finaly I have found that renaming the send to items with a numeric prefix allows for a neater menu.
1. Notepad
2. Clipboard as Name
3. Any Folder…
4. Run Command
5. Clipboard as Contents

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 12 May 2005 00:37:48 +0000

The ‘Open Command Window Here’-powertoy has been available since Windows 95 PowerToys.
Since this has been available since Windows 95 I am quite amazed that MS has not added it by default to Windows!

Here is the link to get it: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

You should also check out ClearType Tuner and Tweak UI!

By: johnpapa

johnpapa — Wed, 11 May 2005 21:58:34 +0000

Ben & John … Very cool stuff. Both are very simple and convenient. Never really thought about “how”, now I don’t have to. Thanks!

By: breichelt

breichelt — Wed, 11 May 2005 21:47:31 +0000

Actually, I hadn’t thought of that one, but I’ll keep it in mind

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 11 May 2005 21:33:07 +0000

One thing I did think to automate was the reverse — getting from the prompt to an explorer window with folders showing.

explorer .,/e

Of course you probably knew that already but I thought I’d mention it anyway coz I use it all the time!