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How to enable “Open command window here” in Windows server 2008

July 14th, 2009

On my Windows XP box I always added the Powertoy “cmd here” wich added a option to the Windows explorer context menu to open a shell command. Currently I use a Windows server 2008 as a workstation and there is no Powertoy for this function. But there is a reg hack.

Open the registry with regedit

Find the key:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\cmd

Rename the key Extended to Extende-Orig

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Find the key:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\cmd

Rename the key Extended to Extende-Orig

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The changes will work immediately

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