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There's actually an option in Settings to swap between Powershell and cmd.exe in the Win + X menu. On top of that you can actually go in and customise it quite
by philo23 8y ago
There's actually an option in Settings to swap between Powershell and cmd.exe in the Win + X menu.
On top of that you can actually go in and customise it quite a bit to your own liking as it's just a folder inside your local app data: C:\Users\YourWindowsUsername\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\WinX
- shawnz 8y agoUnfortunately it has no effect on the menu in Windows Explorer which also dropped cmd for PowerShell recently.
- userbinator 8y agoYou can add a right-click "Console Here" menu item yourself. It's one of the things I've done on fresh installs of Windows since 95. HKCR\*\shell\Console Here\command Default="%WINDIR%\system32\cmd.exe" HKCR\Directory\shell\Console Here\command Default="%WINDIR%\system32\cmd.exe /k cd %1"
- philo23 8y agoI tend not to use the file menu in Windows Explorer, but yeah it'd be nice if that option swapped it there too. I found out recently you can just type "cmd" in the Explorer address bar and hit enter and it'll open cmd.exe to the current directory, so long as you're not in a special shell folder or an unmapped network share. That's saved me a bunch of time.
- 3rdAccount 8y agoI didn't know that. I usually just hit "ctrl + r" and then type in "cmd" and press "enter" and then navigate to the directory I want with "cd". Your pointer will save me time.
- philo23 8y agoI believe it should work with any executable in your PATH but I've never tried it with anything beyond cmd.exe to be honest.
- gobio 8y agoAdditional tip: use Cntl+L to get to Windows Explorer address bar, type cmd, enter.