[jaclaz]

Yzöwl, on Jan 23 2008, 04:22 PM, said:

As for the %windir% and %systemroot% variables, the former is really only used for legacy purposes for older OS compatibility. %systemroot% is the correct one for modern OS's.

Thanks for clarifying.

Still not exactly the needed app, but maybe of interest:
http://www.roggel.co...CMD/index.shtml

UNLIKE the "DOS Here" registry trick, this one is a .dll that opens a CMD prompt IN current OPENED folder, VERY,VERY handier!

And after much searching, most probably Console could be the solution, with a bit of tweaking version 1.5 beta can be set in very convenient ways:
http://sourceforge.n...ojects/console/

Version 2 has many added features, all nice, but maybe too much of them.

jaclaz

This post has been edited by jaclaz: 23 January 2008 - 01:21 PM

[jaclaz]

Also, this one is VERY handy:
http://www.scheernet.de/cmdli/dokumentatio...l#eigenschaften
http://www.scheernet...d/index_en.html

NO frills, very effective.

jaclaz

[AmphetaMarinE]

I use Mikes Command Line (A.K.A MCL)
Very elegant IMO


Get it here ===> http://www.mlin.net/MCL.shtml

[jaclaz]

New kid on the block:
http://code.kliu.org/cmdopen/

Quote

The ContextConsole Shell Extension adds an "Open Command Prompt" menu item to the context menus (right-click menus) in Windows Explorer so that you can open a command prompt in the selected directory (or directories) or in the current directory that you are viewing.

Features
Open a command prompt in the current directory and in multiple directories at once

You can open a command prompt in the directory that you are currently in by right-clicking on any empty screen space in the directory. This eliminates the need to navigate up a level in order to open a command prompt in the current directory, which was one of the biggest shortcomings of Microsoft's Open Command Window Here PowerToy.

You can also open multiple command prompts by selecting a group of directories and invoking the command prompt.
Support for elevated command prompts

On versions of Windows that have UAC (Windows Vista, Windows 7, etc.), the ContextConsole Shell Extension can be used to open elevated command prompts.
Tiny footprint

Compared to similar shell extensions, the ContextConsole Shell Extension has an extremely small memory and disk footprint (the 32-bit version consumes less than 16 KiB of disk space).
Free and open-source

The ContextConsole Shell Extension is open-source, licensed under a BSD-style license, so that anyone with some knowledge of C can easily build their own customized version of this shell extension.
Compatibility: international support and 64-bit-compatible

The user interface text has been translated into many languages, so that it will blend in seamlessly with most systems. Additionally, this shell extension is natively Unicode and can thus support a wide range of directory names.

Both x86-32 and x86-64 systems are natively supported, so you can use this with the increasingly common 64-bit versions of Windows.
Support for network paths

You can even open directories from network paths (UNC paths).

Quite a bunch of other nifty tools on the site (under "misc")

jaclaz

[Yzöwl]

What about a widget for the sidebar, (Vista+), even if you don't have Vista yet there's a standalone version you may be able to use.