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When you hold shift while right-clicking a folder in Windows, the context menu includes the option to "Open a command window here".
Is there a registry tweak, or extension\add-on, which frees you from the need of holding the shift for this operation?

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I'm voting you up because I didn't know Windows had the Shift feature on the context menu (that's its technical term by the way). Unfortunately though, I'm not aware of a PowerTool for Vista / Windows 7 that can do that. – Randolph West Feb 1 '11 at 7:11
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Write up on How To Geek, they also include downloadable reg files to make the edits for you, or open regedit and navigate to:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\cmd

Change the name of the key "Extended", or just delete it, this will give you “Open Command Window Here” on right clicking drives.

For directories do the same thing as above here:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\cmd
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Not sure what is hard to follow, it's a simple renaming of 2 entries and even then you could just delete them. He suggested renaming because you can rename them back to get original functionality. Anyway, +1 for correct answer. Although usually it's good to write down the procedure in addition to linking to original, since if linked page becomes unavailable, your answer would be meaningless. – T. Kaltnekar Feb 1 '11 at 10:17
Now that I've re read it after some time away from the PC it does make perfect sense... I'll amend my answer with the steps. – Windos Feb 1 '11 at 10:34
So can you add entries to the hidden list by adding that registry entry? – paradroid Feb 1 '11 at 11:43
@paradroid: I believe that's the case, yes. – afrazier Feb 1 '11 at 13:57
@paradroid: I don't see why not. I might play around with it a work if there is a lull. – Windos Feb 1 '11 at 17:37
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I like using the small CmdOpen shell extension. It will replace the built-in functionality and enhance it by adding an Open Elevated Command Prompt Here option. It also adds entries to the context menu of the folder background, so you don't have to mouse over to the tree view and hit a small target (or go up a folder if you have the tree hidden).

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The above solution can be done without manually editing the registry. Someone has already done the script for us.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/134840-open-command-window-here-add-remove-shift-right-click.html

Note that before running any reg file, view it to make sure it is safe.

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