Paul Randall

Hi, Mark
Thanks for the link. I just assummed that M$ had not added a modifed
CmdHerePowerToy. I have now checked and verified that the current
power toy is the same old one which doesn't do what I want. I
personally think they should have called it 'open command window
THERE', because HERE would be navigated to the currently open window's
path and THERE would be navigated to the folder being pointed at.

After I have displayed a folder window, I often want to open a command
prompt window and navigate it to that same folder. I want a file
system folder window and a command prompt window, both opened to the
same folder path. If the folder is empty or there are no folder-like
items in the window, then there is no right-clickable item that has
the 'Open Command Window Here' menu item. If I navigate up one folder
level, I can then right click the icon of the folder I just got out
of, and choose 'Open Command Window Here' which opens the command
window to the place I wanted, but then I also have to navigate my
explorer folder window back to its original location if I want to see
something there while working in the command window. That is way to
much navigating to get a command window navigated to the same folder
as the original open folder window.

If the explorer window I have open includes a .zip file, which kind of
looks like a folder, then its 'Open Command Window Here' menu item
does exactly what I want, because a command window can't 'ChDir
xxx,zip' to a zip-virtual-folder window, and the command window
defaults to the folder in which the zip file resides.

I suppose one solution would be to attach the 'Open Command Window
Here' item to the context menus of everything that can be displayed in
a folder window, but I don't know what the list of 'everything'
includes, or the registry keys that would have to be modified to
include all the possible things. Being able to right click in the
white space of the background of an open explorer window and get a
'Open Command Window Here' context menu item would solve the whole
problem even for empty folders, and not clutter the context menu lists
for all the things that can be displayed in a folder window.

-Paul Randall