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  • Run Commands in the Windows Explorer Address Bar

 #27272  by TheAslan
 27 Jul 2013, 15:22
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Here’s a fun little tip for you: did you know that you can run commands from the address bar in Windows Explorer? It’s true — any app that you could run on the command line can be run from the address bar, including opening a new command prompt.

For instance, if you were to type cmd into the address bar, you would end up opening a command prompt with the current path already set to whatever the current folder is. Useful.

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You can also run other commands, like opening a file in the current folder with Notepad. Imagine that you have a file on your desktop called test.txt and you want to open it. From the Desktop folder in Explorer, type notepad test.txt into the address bar, and hit the enter key.

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Just like that, Notepad will open the file. Easy!

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You could also use other commands directly from the address bar — for instance, if you wanted to see a directory listing of the current directory in the command prompt, you could use cmd /k dir in the address bar. Obviously that would be silly, but you can do it.

Credits goes to How-To Geek
Last edited by TheAslan on 31 Jul 2013, 20:46, edited 2 times in total.
 #27295  by Animeware
 31 Jul 2013, 20:23
TheAslan » Mon Jul 29, 2013 7:09 am wrote:
BigB » Today wrote:No pix. Need to fix that.

Good find.


Fixed.


Needs fix Again ;-) NVM.......