Hi All, Whenever I go to my command prompt and type a "c:\temp" or any other file/directory, it takes me to the command prompt rather than the file explorer. Can somebody please tell me how I can fix this so that all file/directory access from cmd takes me to the file explorer. I have a Win2k3 64bit machine. Has this got anything to do with the 32bit/64bit explorer ?
A:
To run Windows Explorer from command prompt you must type name of the executable:
explorer.exe
or just
explorer
To open a certain folder, pass the path as an arguments. Details here:
Command-Line Switches for Windows Explorer (MSDN KB)
See examples.
adf88
2010-07-29 19:04:47
Generally, this happens automatically.. All I have to do is go to the "Run" window and type "C:\Windows" and the Windows folder opens. But now it so happens that when I type "C:\Windows" on the "Run-Window(Win+R)" it opens the same thing on command prompt rather than the explorer :(
paypalcomp
2010-07-29 21:41:57
A:
To open Explorer at the directory where your cmd is operating you can use
start .
and at a parent directory you can use
start ..
Stormshadow
2010-08-11 06:27:14