Sunday, January 13, 2013

How to add a Command Window to the Right-Click Menu

cmdbox.gifAs I delve further and further into how computers work and I began to get involved in a more technical projects, I find myself more and more with the command prompt window. These days, the command prompt window is a kind of obsolete by the fact that everything can be done by clicking on a link or icon. Let's face it, why type in C: \ Program Files \ Skype \ Skype.exe in the command box when you can just go to the Start menu and click on the link?Says there are many people out there who use the command prompt box to perform their own scripts, and you also have the command prompt window in the Windows registry. But once you start using the command prompt window more than a few times, it gets tiring going to the Start menu, select "Run" and type "cmd". Would not it be better and faster to right-click on a hard drive folder (or your desktop trash bin) and open a command prompt window on your right-click menu? I'm sure they prefer. Before we go any further, I want to emphasize that the following process involves making a few changes to your Windows registry. If you are unsure about what you do, make a backup of your registry in case things go wrong! 1. Go to your Start menu, select "Run" and type "regedit" and then press Enter. Your Windows registry box on the screen.


2. In the left pane window, navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Classes/Folder/shell.
3. Make sure the shell folder is chosen, then in the right pane, right-click, choose new then key. Name it command prompt.
4. Select the new key in the left pane and in the right pane, click on the icon. This will open up a box where you type in open command prompt in the “value data” field. Press enter to save it.
5. In that same right-pane window, right-click, choose new then key. Type command in the box. Press enter.
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6. Choose this key in the left pane and in the right pane window, click on the icon. In the value data field, type cmd.exe /k pushd %L. Press enter to save it.
7. Close Windows registry and refresh your Windows Explorer.
8. If you now right-click on a folder or on your desktop trash bin, you’ll now see an option which says Open Command Prompt. Choosing that will open a command prompt window.

Post By:-Imeshmaduvantha

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

Great tip! Working with the command prompt on Visa+ can be a pain.

I use CMD+ now though since a friend sent me a link to it: http://www.cellartop.com/cmd+.html

It saves me a lot of time every day.

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