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When I'm in a particular directory in a Windows command prompt, I sometimes want to open Windows Explorer so it already shows that same directory. How do I do that?

(I'm looking for the equivalent to open . in a Mac OS X terminal.)

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Either one of these should do the trick:

explorer .
start .
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  • And how do I make it point to the folder I want? It works by the so +1 ;-)
    – Ivo Flipse
    Feb 10, 2010 at 18:46
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    start foldername
    – Chris_K
    Feb 10, 2010 at 18:50
  • If you use start foldername as Chris_K suggested, and only get a new cmd.exe window, try start "" foldername instead. If the first argument to start is quoted, it is taken not as the file/command to be started, but instead as the new window's title. So sometimes it is needed to specify an empty title to get around this idiocy. Feb 11, 2010 at 14:01
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explorer.exe path

IE: C:\>Explorer C:\Windows

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You can run

explorer %cd%
explorer %__cd__%

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