Comments on: Embed Command Prompt in Explorer to Easily Run Batch or DOS Tools

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:23:50 +0000

First time user…

I think it would be nice if Windows Explorer’s addressbar could also act like a command prompt.
Even when the dos window is not displayed..

Anyway, something odd happened when i accidently dragged an .mp3-file onto the dos window, it started executing a whole lot of stuff on the prompt. I had a hard time stopping this work of insanity until it suddenly started edit.exe where, by mouse, I managed to stop it from loading TONS (135MB!!!) of data …
Appeared to be a dos helpfile incorrectly parsed to the prompt instead of the screen and then there were this line starting with “Edit “…

How this bug happened to beging with is still a mystery, all I ever wanted was a filename on the prompt…

Greetings

By: ghost

ghost — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:54:57 +0000

thanks raymond & Jcym …

By: Jcym

Jcym — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:47:06 +0000

I use the Windows Powertoy \\\’Open command window here\\\’, a free MS download. Once installed it is available from the right click menu and like this one, opens with the directory you right click on or in as the active directory. Though it opens a separate Command window rather than opening it in Explorer, which I personally prefer. There is a version for all Windows except Vista.

But, in Vista the command is now built in to explorer. Just Shift Right Click on or in the required directory and the command appears in the right click menu. The only drawback is that, unlike the MS Powertoy for other versions, it only works if you right click in the right hand explorer pane and not also in the left hand pane. I.e. if you want to open a command window with the folder that is highlighted in the left hand pane as the active folder then Shift Right Click on an empty portion of that folder in the right hand pane making sure that nothing else is selected in the right hand pane. If you want the command window to open with the one of the directories listed in the right hand pane as the active directory, then either first select that directory and Shift Right Click or simply Shift Right Click directly on that directory.

By: Prashanth

Prashanth — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:13:47 +0000

Thanks Raymond. I use a registry tweak or CMDHere PowerToy to add “Open With Command Prompt” to context menu.

By: Rarst

Rarst — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:45:31 +0000

There is nice trick to keep console open if you call it from run dialog. Precede command with “cmd /k”. So

cmd /k ping localhost

Will ping and keep console open after that (with command prompt, not simply pause before exit). Combines two steps of launching console and then command in console.

By: gargolas

gargolas — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:00:40 +0000

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By: Riz

Riz — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:47:11 +0000

Thanks Ray.. Its really nice …