How To Open A Command Prompt In A Folder

It can often be useful to be able to open a command prompt in windows. This post will show you how to start a command prompt in a target folder, so to avoid having to load a prompt by typing ‘cmd’ at the start menu, and labouriously navigating through your folders to the one you want.

The command prompt can be very useful for running command-line programs, batch processing and your own scripts.

Option 1 – Type ‘cmd’ in the address bar of the target folder

First navigate to your folder using Windows explorer.

Once you’ve found the one you want, type ‘cmd’ into the address bar of the folder.

Hit enter, and this should bring up a command prompt, started in this folder.

Option 2. Shift + Right Click

Go up one level from your target folder. For example if you were in documents/images and you wanted to start a command prompt in images, go up to the folder documents.

Hold shift and right-click on your target folder. The menu should now have the option to ‘Open Command Window Here‘. Click this and you should have a command prompt opened up in your target folder.