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Good one. However typing CMD in the explorer address bar and pressing enter will also open up the command prompt inside the selected folder path as well. Hope this helps.

Good one. However typing CMD in the explorer address bar and pressing enter will also open up the command prompt inside the selected folder path as well. Hope this helps.

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Working for over 20 years now and still learning.
Working for a product base company building solutions for the marine world.

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Not working on my computer lewax0013-Jul-12 6:15 lewax00 13-Jul-12 6:15  It opens to the default location on mine, not the current directory when I do it. But I don't have default settings either, so it may be related. My vote of 5 sunny_rajwadi23-May-12 0:40 sunny_rajwadi 23-May-12 0:40  Good Tip Reason for my vote of 5 Another good Trick. RaisKazi28-Dec-11 20:05 RaisKazi 28-Dec-11 20:05  Reason for my vote of 5 Another good Trick. Reason for my vote of 5 Thanks for the reminder. Dr.Walt Fair, PE31-Aug-11 8:23 Dr.Walt Fair, PE 31-Aug-11 8:23  Reason for my vote of 5 Thanks for the reminder. Reason for my vote of 5 I learned something new today rnbergren22-Jun-11 2:32 rnbergren 22-Jun-11 2:32  Reason for my vote of 5 I learned something new today Reason for my vote of 5 Reason for my vote of 5 Great tip, i... RaviRanjanKr22-Jun-11 1:15 RaviRanjanKr 22-Jun-11 1:15  Reason for my vote of 5 Reason for my vote of 5 Great tip, its new for me Reason for my vote of 5 Nice tip! I did not know this, thank... HiDecky-Mutoh21-Jun-11 19:17 HiDecky-Mutoh 21-Jun-11 19:17  Reason for my vote of 5 Nice tip! I did not know this, thank you. Reason for my vote of 5 nice and handy Salam Y. ELIAS20-Jun-11 13:20 Salam Y. ELIAS 20-Jun-11 13:20  Reason for my vote of 5 nice and handy Reason for my vote of 5 Thanks, I didn't know this. Muneeb R. Baig20-Jun-11 11:10 Muneeb R. Baig 20-Jun-11 11:10  Reason for my vote of 5 Thanks, I didn't know this. @daniel770 These tricks don't work in XP. BillW3314-Jun-11 6:28 BillW33 14-Jun-11 6:28  @daniel770 These tricks don't work in XP. Re: Yeah found that out a few secs ago... shame really :P Ed Nutting14-Jun-11 9:16 Ed Nutting 14-Jun-11 9:16  Yeah found that out a few secs ago... shame really :P How do you do this in XP? daniel77014-Jun-11 5:38 daniel770 14-Jun-11 5:38  How do you do this in XP? Thanks manish..i was not aware of it :) :) jawed.ace14-Jun-11 2:23 jawed.ace 14-Jun-11 2:23  Thanks manish..i was not aware of it I didn't know that. Good tip! Yvan Rodrigues14-Jun-11 1:41 Yvan Rodrigues 14-Jun-11 1:41  I didn't know that. Good tip!

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