Quickly navigate to a command line in Windows

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A friend at work just showed me this and I love it so much I just had to share!

When you are in a Windows Explorer window, such as this:

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From any Windows Explorer window…

And want to open a command line to do something in that same directory, type cmd into the address bar of that Windows Explorer window, like this, and hit Enter:

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Add “cmd” and hit “Enter”…

A new command line window opens, already navigated to that directory…

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And it will open a new command line window, in that directory!

Magic! :-)

Happy coding,
Atg

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2 Responses to Quickly navigate to a command line in Windows

  1. thameera says:
    July 2, 2014 at 11:36 pm

    Wow, all this time I was missing this. Thanks for the tip!

    Reply
  2. Ahmad Alfy says:
    July 31, 2014 at 8:12 am

    WOT THAT’S MAGIC!

    Reply

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