When you hold Shift and press Right Click in Windows Explorer you get some additional menu items, most prominently the options to open the directory in cmd or the PowerShell. I once made these menu items available in the normal right click context menu by manipulating the registry. Unfortunately, I cannot find the tutorial on how to add additional items to this menu anymore. The only thing I do find is &quot;How to reenable the 'open cmd here' context menu item&quot;. I think the last windows update wiped these entries I added for the WSL bash and cmd from the context menu. Now, these entries are only available when I hold Shift while right clicking. How do I get the normal entries back, i. e. how do I get context menu items for &quot;Open cmd here in Windows 10 Windows Explorer&quot; in the normal right click context menu?
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I want "Command Prompt Here" in right click menu for all folders but without having to hold shift key.   It was possible in earlier versions of windows,  but it's not working anymore, in Windows 10.  Has this method changed in Windows 10? or is there another way to do this?
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I like the folder-tree behavior of Windows XP, that is, clicking on any folder on the left pane will automatically expand the folder-tree. Unfortunately this is not how Explorer works in Windows 7.  Does anyone know how I can get Windows 7’s Explorer to behave like the one in XP?
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In linux I use a shortcut to switch between 4 workspaces: win+1/2/3/4.   I would like to have something like this in Windows 10.  UPDATE SOLUTION 2017, WINDOWS 10x64   Update your windows version to most recent through this  . You may also need  Download and unzip this  (0.9.1) works for me. Change content of file settings.ini to    [KeyboardShortcuts] Switch=LWin Move=LAlt, Shift, Ctrl MoveAndSwitch=LAlt, Shift Previous=Left Next=Right PlusTen=     Run virtual-desktop-enhancer.exe as administrator.
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In Windows File Explorer, you can highlight several files and then click the "Copy path" button from the menu.  Show below is an example.  I'd then like to process these files on the command line, preferably in a PowerShell terminal.  I've tried enclosing them in more quotes, single quotes, and backticks, to no avail. Here's an example of the files copied to the clipboard:  "C:\Users\me\100_0909.jpg" "C:\Users\me\100_0521.jpg" "C:\Users\me\100_0519.jpg"  I'd like to be able to take the files above and include them in a command like:  magick "C:\Users\me\100_0909.jpg" "C:\Users\me\100_0521.jpg" "C:\Users\me\100_0519.jpg" +append new.jpg
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My file explorer isn't showing the relationship of the Desktop shortcut with other shortcuts correctly.  As you can see here, &quot;This PC,&quot; &quot;Libraries,&quot; etc., are showing under &quot;Desktop,&quot; which is not what I wanted. I'd like all the shortcuts above to be displayed at the outmost level. The only change that I've committed and relate is that I changed the directory of the desktop into this:  But I've done nothing other than I can relate to this problem. Can anyone please help? Thanks in advance.
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I use  3.10.1 on  7.0 GNU/Linux. In context menu, there is no such option like create new file/document. So, I want to add such an option (which may work like that of existing option: New folder).   Is there any nautilus plug-in available? or I have  installed. So, what command/script I can use for this purpose?   Further I am also interested in featuring options like: New  Document, New  Document, etc.
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I am trying to fix start menu damage after windows 10 install.  Currently, I removed all files from known locations of start menu files, but still have some entries in Start Menu.  Here is the proof folders are empty:    And here is the proof that I still have some entries in Main Menu:    What are all locations of Start Menu folders in Windows 10?
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When you hold Shift while right-clicking a folder in Windows, the context menu includes the option to Open command window here.  Is there a registry tweak, or an extension/add-on, which frees you from the need to hold Shift for this operation?
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As a developer, I often have the need to open a command prompt for various purposes. For example, I use iisreset to restart my local web server.  I typically open the command window in one of two ways:   Press Win, type "cmd" and press Enter While in Explorer, hold Shift and right click on a folder, and choose "Open command window here"   However, when I open the command window in either of these ways, I do not have the full administrator privileges that I feel I am entitled to.    In order to run administrator-only applications, I have to open the command line in this relatively laborious way:   Press Win, type "cmd" Wait for the menu to populate Lift hand off the keyboard and put it on the mouse Right click the "cmd.exe" menu item Choose "Run as administrator"   This is unacceptable for several reasons:   The window always opens in C:\windows\system32, rather than my Users directory (as in approved technique 1) or the folder I want to be in (as in approved technique 2). So I often have to change directories to get where I want to go. This process is several milliseconds slower than either of my preferred methods. Performed several times a day, every day for the remainder of my career, it adds up to about ten days of lost time spent clicking and waiting and directory changing. As a programmer, performing a pointless robotic task causes me great emotional pain. As a programmer, lifting my hand is a strenuous task that causes me great physical pain.   That is why I am looking for a one-and-done solution that will let approved techniques 1 &amp; 2 open administrator command prompts.  Many programs let you permanently change their default privilege level from the Properties menu. Command Prompt is not one of those programs.    How do I make the command window run as administrator by default (even when using the "Open command window here" context menu option)?
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How do I launch Windows'  with certain path located, like "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0", so I don't have to do the clicking?  What's the command line argument to do this? Or is there a place to find the explanation of RegEdit's switches?
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In the CMD interpreter on Windows, the ↑ arrow key replaces the current input (not sure what the accurate term is) with commands in the command history; commands that have previously been executed.   An odd idiosyncrasy of CMD is that on a fresh instance, when there are no previous commands in the history, the accidental pressing of the Up arrow key replaces the current input with the last "command" in the history; nothing, essentially clearing the input:      What's more, pressing the ↓ key doesn't return the previous command as you would expect; it's permanently lost. Essentially then, in the command prompt, the Up arrow doubles as a "clear input" key.  Can this be fixed at all?
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Related:    I've created my custom context menu item, and it seems to work on all file types - even through shortcut links.  (Selecting my custom option performs the operation on the shortcut target, not the .lnk file.)  Now, I'd like to create an icon to make it stand out.  My antivirus program and Notepad++ seem to have been able to do this, so I know it's possible.  The only question is, how?
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Am currently working on a business process automation software and literally user actions are simulated by robots. I need to pass some information to the start menu of my windows 7 and i was wondering if the windows start menu could be opened using a powershell script? As the information to open a powershell can be understood by the robots. Please any suggestions would be nice.
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You open cmd and type (for example) cd C:\dragons  How can you open C:\dragons in the file explorer? Yes, you can use explorer C:\dragons, but that is kinda lame. Let's say I'm in the folder C:\dragons\Red\WhiteCrests\infants, this way just isn't convenient.  Already tried explorer dir and explorer path (both of which opens My Documents for some reason), just explorer (opens the Libraries folder), open which is undefined, explorer dirname which gives me that dirname is undefined, and probably other stuff that I can't remember.  Thanks in advance.  ...Shamelessly adding to the question with a thought I just had, how can you open a file (say C:\dragons\intro.txt) with a specified program? Like, instead of the default one (like Notepad), open it in Notepad++, without using Notepad++'s (if one exists) command line stuff. Something like:  cd C:\dragons intro.txt --Notepad++
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I created the shiftcommandn shortcut for Firefox in Syst Prefs to match other browsers' behavior.     It registers in the Firefox Menubar.     But pressing the shortcut opens a new non-private window, and it loads there the first item in my "Top Sites".   I imagine I could create another shortcut to override this behavior, but what is this behavior? I don't see anything highlighted in the Firefox Menubar when I hit the shortcut. Or might there be another solution (other than using a different shortcut to open new private windows)?   Problem exists on both Mojave and High Sierra. Default Firefox shortcut (shiftcommandp) still opens a new private window.
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I want to switch to right click but, there is no option to do that in the User Preferences. I should be located at the top of the Keymap section.
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So, I know you can create a shortcut to an administrator-level command prompt (as described in ), but what I'm seeing is that whenever I use such a shortcut, it always drops me into c:\windows\system32\ path.   I've tried specifying that shortcut's properties to set the "start in" path I need, but to no avail. It seems any time I run cmd.exe "As Administrator," it completely disregards the shortcut's paths and sticks to c:\windows\system32\  Any suggestions on how to get Windows 7 to respect the shortcut's "start in" path?