Assigning a shortcut to open cmd here

Question

Microsoft's powertoy is relatively well known. But it requires you to open a cmd one level above, from where you'd usually like. So I found this nice app, CmdOpenInstall (let's make the man some traffic :-) - it enables you to open cmd in the current directory.

Is there a way to assign a keyboard shortcut to the command (which appears on right click menu) ? How ?

p.s. I know this is maybe not a strict programing subject, but I still think it has more chances of being answered here then on SF.

Answer 1

If you find the context menu entry in the registry (I think it would be in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell somewhere), you can prefix the character you want as hotkey in that menu with a & to force it as keyboard accelerator.

But apart from that you can't (at least not without addditional tools I don't know any of) make direct keyboard shortcuts to functions in a context menu. But I think something like Menu key and another letter comes close enough in everyday use.

Answer 2

Here are the registry keys I use to easily open command windows. Here 'C' is the shortcut key.

To use, save to a .reg file and merge into your registry.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
;Right click on folder and open up command window
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Folder\shell\cmd1]
@="Open &Command Prompt Here"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Folder\shell\cmd1\command]
@="cmd.exe /k pushd \"%L\""


;Right click on any file and open up command window
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\cmd1]
@="Open &Command Prompt Here"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\cmd1\command]
@="cmd.exe %1"