Now, whenever, you open Windows Terminal, it will start with Command prompt profile. Then, click on the ‘Save’ button at the bottom-right corner to set Command Prompt as the default profile. In the ‘Startup’ tab, click on the Default Profile drop-down menu and select ‘Command Prompt’. Once, the Window Terminal opens, click the down arrow button at the top and select ‘Settings’. Here, you do this:įirst, open Windows Terminal by right-clicking the ‘Start’ button from Taskbar and selecting Windows Terminal. However, if you change the default profile in Windows Terminal from ‘Windows PowerShell’ to ‘Command Prompt’, the Command Prompt will open inside a folder. So, if you select the ‘Open in Windows’ Terminal option from the Context menu, it starts PowerShell in that folder as shown below. When you right-click on the desktop or in a folder, you will see the ‘Open in Windows Terminal’ option.īy default, when you open Windows Terminal in Windows 11, it opens with the PowerShell window. Open Command Prompt In A Folder using Right-click Context menuĪnother quickest way to open a Command prompt is through right-click context menu on any folder. This will open the Command prompt directly inside that folder with regular privileges as shown below. Once you’re in the right folder, click on the address bar at the top and simply type in cmd and press Enter. Here’s how:įirst, open Windows Explorer and navigate to the location from where you want to open the Command prompt.
One of the simplest and quickest ways to change the directory in Command Prompt to any of your desired folders is through Windows File manager. Open Command Prompt inside any Folder using File Explorer In this guide, we will see the different methods to launch a command prompt window directly in any directory you want. Fortunately, Windows 11 allows you to directly open Command Prompt directly from inside a folder from within the file manager. Because requires you to type in the complete path of the file (long folder and program names) in the command prompt.
If you have to run a program on a specific folder/location, manually navigating to that folder via commands (cd command) can be a real pain. But, sometimes, you may need to open the command prompt window inside a specific directory or within the currently opened folder path. And when you open CMD in the administrator mode, the default path is set to C:\Windows\System32. When you open a command prompt on your Windows 11 PC, it opens in the current user directory path (For instance, C:\Users\Rand>). In that case, the second method comes to your rescue.The Command Prompt (cmd) is a powerful command-line utility for performing various tasks on a Windows computer. That was easy, right? But I can understand that you may not remember the shortcut always, even though it is really easy. When you are holding both Ctrl and Alt keys, press T and you’ll see that a new terminal window is opened. Press and hold Ctrl first and then press Alt key and hold on to it as well.
To open a terminal, you can press Ctrl, Alt and T keys together. I find using keyboard shortcuts in Ubuntu a lot more convenient. Method 1: Launch Ubuntu terminal using keyboard shortcut Let’s focus on the terminal here and let me show a few ways to launch the terminal in Ubuntu. You are in a completely new environment and it could take some time to getting used to it. Even the simplest of the tasks like opening a terminal window in Ubuntu could seem complicated. When you are absolutely new to Ubuntu, things could be overwhelming at the beginning.
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