Over the years we’ve learned that a lot of folks don’t have “Open a command window here” listed in their right-click context menu. For most of you, that’s fine, because you’ll rarely use it. However, there are times when it can come in handy – for instance, if you want to do a batch renaming of files in a folder.<\/span><\/p>\n First, if you already have “Show a command window here”, you can stop reading. Right-click any folder that contains files, for example, “Pictures”. Look at your right-click menu. Do you see “Open a command window” here? If not, hold down your shift key and right-click the folder. Do you see it now?<\/span><\/p>\n If you see “Open a command window here”… congrats! Grab a beer or cup of coffee or whatever. You don’t need to read any further. If you see “Open a command window here” when you hold down your shift key and then right-click the folder, but you want “Open a command window here” to always show, keep reading.<\/span><\/p>\n If you don’t see “Open a command window here” in your context menu, hold down your shift key and then right-click the folder. You should see it. If you don’t see it and you want “Open a command window here to always show in your right-click menu\u00a0download this zip file<\/span><\/strong><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n It contains two REG files. The first one will add a key to the registry that will add “Open command window here” to your right-click menu. The zip file also contains a REG file to remove “Open command window here”, for whatever reason you’d want to do that.<\/span><\/p>\n How to use the zip file.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Unzip the file, double-click on EnableCommandPromptHereAlways.reg. Click OK to the warnings, when completed you’ll get a message that the information has been entered into your registry. You should immediately be able to right-click any folder and see “Open a command window here”. If you don’t see it restart your computer and you should see it then.<\/span><\/p>\n Should you ever want to remove the “Open command window here” from your context menu, double-click on DisableCommandPromptHereAlways.reg<\/span><\/p>\n For why you’d ever need such an item in your right-click menu, here’s an example. See our Windows Spotlight tip here<\/a><\/span>.\u00a0And you’ll also see some Windows tips that are much easier to do if you have “Open a command prompt here” in your right-click menu.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Add “Open a command window here” to Your Windows 10 Right-click Menu\u00a0\u00a0 Over the years we’ve learned that a lot of folks don’t have “Open a command window here” listed in their right-click context menu. For most of you, that’s fine, because you’ll rarely use it. However, there are times when it can come in handy –\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3948],"tags":[4171],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20967"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20967"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20969,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20967\/revisions\/20969"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Cloudeight](\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2021\/spotlight3.png\")
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