Comments on: Change the default Command Prompt directory

By: a

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:53:19 +0000

Nice thing.Thanks……….

By: Hima

Hima — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 07:21:16 +0000

thats so easy to tweak!

By: magicyte

magicyte — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 18:14:53 +0000

@ Rj

When here in the registry editor …

HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftCommand Processor

… right-click in the white space, if there is no variable named “Autorun” and click “New” in the menu which was opened after the right-click. Name the variable “Autorun”. Select “String” from the choices of the type of variable and click OK (or whatever button there is that signals to add the variable). You should then see a variable called “Autorun” in the margin. Double-click on it and in the “Value:” textbox, put …

CD /d X:Y

… where X is your current drive and Y is the folder you want the default prompt to be. If you do not understand this, just ask and it shall be given unto.

- magicyte

By: Rj

Rj — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 00:36:36 +0000

Ummmm i dont c autorun…can anybody help me, im so nooob at this kinda stuff.>=|

By: Rj

Rj — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 04:03:28 +0000

I dont c autorun???

By: Saravana

Saravana — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 07:12:30 +0000

Hi,
thank you so much

By: Kent

Kent — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 01:37:01 +0000

Hi Rarst
You can open command prompt from a drive by shift right clicking the drive and clicking on the open command prompt here on the popup menu
Kent

By: Rarst

Rarst — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 21:51:10 +0000

>Does anyone know how to do it from the command prompt w/o regedit though?

Well, cmd help points to those registry settings… If you really want to play around it you can just make .bat (.cmd) file that runs console and goes to directory needed. Something like this:

cmd /k cd “c:\”

By: Hank

Hank — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:11:35 +0000

I actually had a different starting directory and wanted to get back to c:\

This regedit definitely worked for me.

Does anyone know how to do it from the command prompt w/o regedit though?

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 11:44:34 +0000

sorry im pretty newb. whats this thing that obi posted do? if its complicated then either dont worry or link me to something. thx.

By: del

del — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:56:25 +0000

then do it manually

By: pk

pk — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 06:42:55 +0000

xp wont let me add to reg.
can not import, not a reg script, only import binary reg. files.

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 02:17:20 +0000

anubhav, it does work. You’ve got to create the key if it isnt there, create it as a string then edit it to the path.

By: Manju

Manju — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 16:58:44 +0000

Hey anubhav, that does work.
Thanks Martin.

By: anubhav

anubhav — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 09:25:41 +0000

no this does not work

By: Vivek

Vivek — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 12:29:14 +0000

Nice hack! That’s really clever :)

By: Martin

Martin — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:18:40 +0000

No it has not yet Obi, thanks for mentioning it.

By: Obi-Wahn

Obi-Wahn — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:11:01 +0000

Well I’m not sure if this hack was on ghacks allready, but to get a Shell-Context-Menu entry to open the command prompt in a choosen folder, just save this:

;start here
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\cmd]
@=”Open Command &Promt here…”

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\cmd\command]
@=”cmd.exe /k \”cd %L\”"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\cmd]
@=”Open Command &Promt here…”

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\cmd\command]
@=”cmd.exe /k \”cd %L\”
; end here

into a file (commandprompt.reg) and add it to your registry.