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 Monday, May 12, 2008

Found quite a gem today.  I've always installed the Windows Powertoys feature to get the "Open Command Window here" option when you right-click a folder in Explorer.  I've discovered that this is not needed in Vista.

How does that saying go..."Real men use DOS, right?"  I can never seem to get completely away from needing a Command Shell for batch file testing, etc.  The problem is trying to navigate quickly in a DOS box to a deeply nested directory.  For Vista, there's a similar product called TweakVI as seen here:

http://www.totalidea.com/content/tweakvi/tweakvi-index.php

It's got most of the features of the old Powertoys TweakUI, but I still didn't get the right-click Command Window feature.  A quick search today turned up this:

http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2006/09/18/windows-vista-secret-1-open-command-prompt-here.aspx

That's right, Vista already had it and I didn't even know it!  Just hold the shift key as you right-click and you automatically see the option.