How do I change "Open with Powershell" to "Open with Command Prompt" when shift-rightclicking in Explorer?
Open regedit.exe, go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\cmd
, take ownership of the key, add your user account full permissions and change the name of the DWORD from HideBasedOnVelocityId
to ShowBasedOnVelocityId
to enable the command prompt entry again.
Or apply Andrew Richards tweak to have both shown (cmd and PowerShell, also with entry to have elevate (running as admin) version),
by importing his .reg file (create a new txt file, paste the content and rename the file extension to reg):
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
; Command Prompt
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\01MenuCmd]
"MUIVerb"="Command Prompts"
"Icon"="cmd.exe"
"ExtendedSubCommandsKey"="Directory\\ContextMenus\\MenuCmd"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\background\shell\01MenuCmd]
"MUIVerb"="Command Prompts"
"Icon"="cmd.exe"
"ExtendedSubCommandsKey"="Directory\\ContextMenus\\MenuCmd"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\ContextMenus\MenuCmd\shell\open]
"MUIVerb"="Command Prompt"
"Icon"="cmd.exe"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\ContextMenus\MenuCmd\shell\open\command]
@="cmd.exe /s /k pushd \"%V\""
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\ContextMenus\MenuCmd\shell\runas]
"MUIVerb"="Command Prompt Elevated"
"Icon"="cmd.exe"
"HasLUAShield"=""
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\ContextMenus\MenuCmd\shell\runas\command]
@="cmd.exe /s /k pushd \"%V\""
; PowerShell
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\02MenuPowerShell]
"MUIVerb"="PowerShell Prompts"
"Icon"="powershell.exe"
"ExtendedSubCommandsKey"="Directory\\ContextMenus\\MenuPowerShell"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\background\shell\02MenuPowerShell]
"MUIVerb"="PowerShell Prompts"
"Icon"="powershell.exe"
"ExtendedSubCommandsKey"="Directory\\ContextMenus\\MenuPowerShell"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\ContextMenus\MenuPowerShell\shell\open]
"MUIVerb"="PowerShell"
"Icon"="powershell.exe"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\ContextMenus\MenuPowerShell\shell\open\command]
@="powershell.exe -noexit -command Set-Location '%V'"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\ContextMenus\MenuPowerShell\shell\runas]
"MUIVerb"="PowerShell Elevated"
"Icon"="powershell.exe"
"HasLUAShield"=""
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\ContextMenus\MenuPowerShell\shell\runas\command]
@="powershell.exe -noexit -command Set-Location '%V'"
; Ensure OS Entries are on the Extended Menu (Shift-Right Click)
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\cmd]
"Extended"=""
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\background\shell\cmd]
"Extended"=""
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\Powershell]
"Extended"=""
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\background\shell\Powershell]
"Extended"=""
As a quick alternative to the other answers, you can type cmd
on the address bar of Explorer to open a command prompt cd
'd to the current directory. (If you are more of a keyboard person, you can use the Ctrl + L
shortcut to focus the address bar and then type cmd
.)
This works for powershell
too.
Edit (2021-08-02): As @pj.dewitte pointed out, you may need to use the .exe
extension (i.e. cmd.exe
, powershell.exe
).