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Reputation: 53

Is it possible to create a shortcut that opens windows cmd in specific folder?

Is it possible to create a desktop shortcut or task bar shortcut that opens a CMD window in a specified directory on a windows OS?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 453

Answers (4)

Jean-François Fabre
Jean-François Fabre

Reputation: 140168

Yes, it is possible and easy, without creating anything else than a shortcut:

  1. create a shortcut of cmd.exe (command prompt) on your (drag'n'drop the icon to your desktop)
  2. edit its properties and change start in to the required directory

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Upvotes: 2

David Cram
David Cram

Reputation: 778

Create a shortcut to cmd.exe. Right click on the shortcut and select properties. At the end of the Target add /k and the command to navagate to the directory in double quotes. For example, this takes you to the root directory:

C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /k "cd\"

Upvotes: 0

Chris J
Chris J

Reputation: 1447

ConEmu is quite a useful tool (and free) as it allows you to start a command window within a folder by simply right clicking in the folder and selecting from the menu.

If you have only one specific folder, though, and you want to create a shortcut for it, set your shortcut to...

cmd /K "cd C:[YourFolderName]\"

Substituting as necessary.

Upvotes: 0

Chandrakant Audhutwar
Chandrakant Audhutwar

Reputation: 345

Yes, tricky one is like. Create .bat file with cd $folderPath and open folder to $folderPath

Upvotes: 0

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