I use the command prompt quite a bit, and I was looking for a way to launch it directly from a folder I am looking at in explorer.

It turns out this is not too hard to do. I found a way to add a menu item when you right click on the folder. I will walk you though the steps to do it yourself

First open regedit, and browse to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell

Drill down to the ‘directory’ key, then the ’shell’ key under that.

Under this create a new key named “cmd”. Once created, double click on the default value on the right

The text you type in here will be the description on the menu. I used “Open Command Prompt Here”. This is what it will look like when we are finished:

Under the cmd key you created, create another key named “command” Set the default value for this to

cmd.exe /k “cd %L && ver”

This is what it should look like in regedit:

Today, Nick told you about some updates to the tools in the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) from Barcelona, Spain at TechEd IT Forum. I recently had a chance to give one of the components of MDOP - the Microsoft Diagnostic and Recovery Toolset Read More……(read more)

Today, Nick told you about some updates to the tools in the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) from Barcelona, Spain at TechEd IT Forum. I recently had a chance to give one of the components of MDOP - the Microsoft Diagnostic and Recovery Toolset (DaRT) 6.0 - a try. DaRT is an excellent set of tools for IT Professionals to troubleshoot unresponsive PCs and removing viruses and malware off infected PCs in their environment. DaRT 6.0  also now has the ability for IT Professionals to conduct offline removal of malware and viruses from infected PCs.

The first thing I noticed when I started using DaRT is that it provides two options to the IT Professional: a way to analyze crash files from unresponsive PCs through the Crash Analysis Wizard, and a way to create a startup disc with the necessary tools in fixing an unresponsive PC that is unable to boot into Windows called ERD Commander.

I first took a look at the Crash Analysis Wizard.

The Crash Analysis Wizard allows an IT Professional to take a crash dump file (*.dmp files associated with a system crash) and analyze it and get important bits of information that could

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To take advantage of your new UMPC for traveling and vacationing, you’ll want to make sure that you have some specific hardware and software in place.

First, if you don’t want to get lost walking around foreign cities or hiking in the Grand Canyon, you’ll want to get some GPS software and hardware. A good place to start is with Microsoft Streets & Trips with GPS Locator. This software and hardware lets you set up your GPS with Plug and Play. (more…)

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