This may be old news to a lot of you, but I have come across a very nifty trick in Windows Vista.

One of the many Vista frustrations is the lack of a command prompt. Sometimes there are things that just can't be done without a C:> to work with.

So... open up Windows Explorer. Drill down the Explorer tree until the subdirectory you wish the command prompt to be active in is in the right-hand pane. Shift-Right-Click that folder, and you will get a menu in which one of the offerings is "Open Command Window Here". Click on that and you are instantly at a command prompt in that subdirectory.

This will work for folders on the desktop and folders in the right-hand pane of Explorer, but not folders in the left hand pane.

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