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Open Command Prompt From a Specific Folder in Windows 7

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Hi, you're watching VisiHow. This is a tutorial on how to open Command Prompt from a specific folder on Windows 7 computers.

Steps

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Let's open the Command Prompt from the Run window
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To open the Run window, we need to press the Windows key + "R".

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Then, write "cmd" and hit "Enter"
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A new window will open.

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In here, we can see that the Command Prompt is not setting a specific location
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It's just a general location on the C disk.
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If we want to open Command Prompt from a specific folder, we need to first open the folder
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In this example, we will open "My Computer" and select "VisiHow (H:)".

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Then, we need to press and hold "Shift" on the keyboard and then right-click on an empty space
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From there, choose "Open command window here"
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The location is now specified in the Command Prompt
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This concludes the tutorial on how to open Command Prompt from a specific folder on Windows 7 computers
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