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>This is handy for running scripts, but why the "shift" modifier? Same for "Open commandline/powershell" when right clicking whitespace of directory.

Not a solution to your particular gripe but you can actually type "powershell" or "cmd" (minus quotes) into the address bar in windows explorer and it will open in that directory.

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Yes, and there is a long standing bug. Once you have done that, if you go back to the folder window in explorer, and try to select/copy the folder path, all you will get is the path to cmd.exe instead.

Holy crap, you can too. Thanks for the tip!

Further clarification: google and 3 seconds of testing advise you can run any executable in your PATH environment variable.

Though there is some other step going on as "powershell" will set the current working dir on startup. Possibly a class entry in registry defining the full command to run.

Amazing!

I have been using Windows since version 3.1, and still did not know this trick. HN is truly an amazing place!

IIRC this is from Vista

Also "code.cmd ." if you have vscode installed. The address bar works actually like the "Run" box. Capable for running random commands.

Another one that I use from the address bar is "subl -n ." to open a temporary Sublime Text project. I imagine you could do something similar with VS Code.

I use a Mac, but I very frequently use `code .` to open vscode for the current directory.

That didn't work in windows because it tries to open the unix shell wrapper "code" instead of "code.cmd" for some reason.(Because I have wsl2 installed?) Type "code.cmd ." instead works.

Hmmmm, I use WSL2/Ubuntu and I always navigate to my folder in Terminal and type `code .` from there - works perfectly. Really love this integration.

On win 11 typing cmd open a command prompt. Typing powersshell makes explorer navigate to "documents\powersshell".

Edit: typing powershell.exe does the trick

You sure it isn’t just because you wrote powershell as powersshell ? The former worked for me

I looked into it and it is because I have a folder in "my documents" that is named "powershell". If I rename that folder typing "powershell" opens a new powershell prompt.

Better yet, "pwsh".

If you type a url it'll open it in a browser as well.

Wow - news to me! thanks.

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