Is there a way to add the "Open command prompt" back tin the file Menu

If you like, you could add it back to the context menu.

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Mystere said:

Interesting. You do know that you can do anything in a powershell prompt that you can in command prompt, right?

PowerShell commands are often ridiculously verbose.

@GoodTimesAhead


Just FWIW.....if anyone must have a command prompt and feel stuck with Powershell, simply type cmd in Powershell and hit enter. You'll be at a regular Command Prompt. It's only another way of getting there, not the best, but an easy way. If the OP doesn't like/want to use Powershell, this an alternative. Just a suggestion.

GoodTimesAhead said:

Is there a way to add it back?

I don’t think there’s a way to get this option back. No one’s found anything yet and I’ve also tried a few things myself.

Instead, what you could do is make the “Open Windows PowerShell” Explorer file menu option open the command prompt by changing the data value of the “HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\Directory\shell\Powershell\command” (“HKCR\Directory\shell\Powershell\command”) registry value from

Code:

powershell.exe -noexit -command Set-Location '%V'

to

Code:

cmd.exe /s /k pushd "%V"

It will still say “Open Windows PowerShell” though.

But as the best work around to this problem, I encourage any one reading this to pick up the newer language.

lehnerus2000 said:

Mystere said:

Interesting. You do know that you can do anything in a powershell prompt that you can in command prompt, right?

PowerShell commands are often ridiculously verbose.

I’d say this is a good thing anyway, but maybe you say this because you often see people write and share PowerShell commands in their most verbose form. PowerShell lines can often be reduced quite a lot. You can be as verbose or as implicit as you want.

For example, the command prompt command

Code:

for %i in ("*.mp4") do echo "%~ni"

translates to following in PowerShell

Code:

Get-ChildItem -Path '*.mp4' | ForEach-Object -MemberName BaseName | Out-Default

It’s longer than the command prompt command in its verbose form, but it can also be written in short form as

Code:

ls *.mp4 | % BaseName

Additionally, it is expected you’d use tab completion and never fully type out commands.