{"id":1995,"date":"2011-02-25T22:25:54","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T11:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/?p=1995"},"modified":"2011-02-25T22:25:54","modified_gmt":"2011-02-25T11:25:54","slug":"open-a-command-prompt-quickly-in-windows-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/open-a-command-prompt-quickly-in-windows-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Open a Command Prompt Quickly in Windows 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Particularly for those of us who work a bit with a command line it can often be a pain to manually change directories if you want to wade more than about four folders deep. Luckily, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 contain a handy little feature to get to a folder quickly.<\/p>\n<p>Simply hold down the shift key and right click on the folder in which you want to open a command prompt.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1996\" style=\"width: 614px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Windows-7-Open-a-command-prompt-from-Windows-Explorer.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1996\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1996 \" title=\"Windows 7 - Open a command prompt from Windows Explorer\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Windows-7-Open-a-command-prompt-from-Windows-Explorer-1024x916.png?resize=614%2C550\" alt=\"Windows 7 - Open a command prompt from Windows Explorer\" width=\"614\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Windows-7-Open-a-command-prompt-from-Windows-Explorer.png?resize=1024%2C916&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Windows-7-Open-a-command-prompt-from-Windows-Explorer.png?resize=300%2C268&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Windows-7-Open-a-command-prompt-from-Windows-Explorer.png?w=1057&amp;ssl=1 1057w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1996\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Windows 7 - Open a command prompt from Windows Explorer<\/p><\/div>\n<p>One neat thing about this trick is if you do it on a network folder, Windows will mount it as a mapped drive and then your command prompt. However, this won&#8217;t get you to an administrative command prompt which may be more useful depending upon your situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Particularly for those of us who work a bit with a command line it can often be a pain to manually change directories if you want to wade more than about four folders deep. Luckily, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 contain a handy little feature to get to a folder quickly. Simply hold &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/open-a-command-prompt-quickly-in-windows-7\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[152,151,18,155,162],"tags":[1306,157,2278,2280],"class_list":["post-1995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft-operating-systems-technology","category-operating-systems","category-technology","category-windows-7","category-windows-server-2008-r2","tag-command-prompt","tag-windows","tag-windows-7","tag-windows-server-2008-r2","item-wrap"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}