Thread: DOS Prompt Here
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Old 03-09-2008   #4 (permalink)
Mark L. Ferguson


 
 

Re: DOS Prompt Here

Sorry, it was my understanding during the beta of Vista, that left pane
rightclick would not include that feature, by design, and as expected
behavior.

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"Doit2it" <oO@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> New system, Vista installed from Dell. Not an upgrade from XP.
> And I don't have to press shift, just highlight a folder on either the
> right side or the left side of Windows Explorer.
> And now it has changed. The left side no longer opens any folder in the
> C:\Windows\System32 folder, but in the C:\Users\"current user" folder.
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> "Mark L. Ferguson" <MarkLFerguson@xxxxxx> wrote in
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>> My left side shift-rightclick does not offer the prompt that way. Maybe
>> you have upgraded XP with that feature? (powertoys-tweakui et. al. ?)
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>> "Doit2it" <oO@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>> With Vista, in Windows Explorer, when I right click on a folder and
>>> select 'DOS Prompt Here' the DOS prompt always starts in
>>> C:\Windows\system32 not the highlighted folder. That's using the folder
>>> list on the left side. If I try it with a folder on the right side, it
>>> opens the DOS prompt in the parent directory of the folder I have
>>> highlighted.
>>>
>>> What gives?
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