Microsoft Windows 7 Tutorials
User Experience / Opening the Command Prompt
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The Command Prompt is something that Administrators will always use and as a matter of fact with Tools like Power Shell we're actually moving back to the Command Prompt a lot more often then we probably ever thought we would just a few years ago. There's a cool functionality that's build into Windows 7 that I want to show you and that is that we can open a Command Prompt in any folder and let me just show you this. Notice that if we open My Computer and let's go to C, we will go into Windows, System32 and let's go into the - let's come down to Drivers, etc Let's do something with our Host File. Now notice a couple of things I want to show you in this video. First of all right quick here, I don't know any other really good place to put this, so let's just talk about it right here. Notice up here this Breadcrumb, notice I can click this and I can choose different things along the way and this is kind of neat. But sometimes I need this address to copy it somewhere. Couple of things I can do, I can just click anywhere up here and it will convert it into like a location path. Notice just like you see here that you would use in a script or in a Command Prompt Window. OK, there's another thing I can do, if I click anywhere down here it goes back to the way it was. I can move up here and just right-click and notice I can copy the address, I can copy it as text, I can edit the address and I can delete history in my bar here, OK? So a couple of ways to get the address that you need. Now if I want to copy a file in this particular directory there's a couple of things I can do. I can come down here to the Start Menu and I can type Run and then I can type CMD and notice it opens me up in Users Mark. Well to work in this directory I've now got to change this directory and get into Windows, System32, Drivers, etc. or what I can do is simply hold down the Shift Key OK, right click in here and say Open Command Window here and notice it opened me up with that path already in the Command Window, OK? Now there's another way I can do this and that is to get out here to the Folder that I want to be in and get on that folder, hold down Shift, right-click and Open Command Window here and it does the same thing. So all I have to do is find the folder that I want to be working in, OK? And at this point I can hit Directory and I can see the files in there. Now I can do copies or whatever I'd like to do, OK? Now this was out there as a Windows XP Power Toy and a lot of Administrators used this and really loved it. It is now part if the Windows 7 operating system, you don't need a Power Toy to get it and it also works - let me show you this. This is really cool. How many times do you have junk on your Desktop that you want to manipulate? You can do this from the Desktop. Notice if I get on the Desktop, hold down Shift and right click it will take me to the Desktop as well, OK? So that's the way to open a Command Prompt in any folder and then a really cool way to manipulate and copy the location path that you see that's a drone for you in the top of your Windows.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Microsoft Windows 7 |
| Author: | Mark Long |
| SKU: | 34064 |
| ISBN: | 1-935320-86-6 |
| Release Date: | 2009-12-10 |
| Duration: | 7 hrs / 74 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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