Open command prompt in any folder
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:
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Written by Steve Wiseman on November 12th, 2007 with no comments.
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