A forum filled with geeks and nobody told me.

[IronWing]

Open Command Prompt from the File Explorer Address Bar:

In File Explorer, click the address bar to select it (or press Alt+D). Type "cmd" into the address bar and hit Enter to open the Command Prompt with the path of the current folder already set.

 

[lxskllr]

People still use windows? You're right; that is weird for a tech forum.

 

[IronWing]

Fine.

Find and download a file manager.
Install the file manager.
Go back and find the dependencies.
Download the required files and install.
Try to install the file manager again.
Open your file manager on the Linux desktop and navigate to the directory you need to work in. Once in that directory, right-click on an empty space in the file manager and then select Open In Terminal. A new terminal window should open, already in the current working directory of the file manager.

 

[lxskllr]

See? Now that's sensible! :^D

 

[nakedfrog]

Huh, could be useful. Don't suppose there's secret sauce to make it also run as administrator?

 

[Red Squirrel]

If I right click anywhere I can just do "open terminal" and it opens it with path set to current folder. Including desktop.

I'm on Linux though.

As a side note, my old cat figured out how to open a terminal in the middle of a Windows installation once. I have no idea what she did but she was sitting there all pretty with the terminal open, and windows install screen behind it, still installing.

 

[igor_kavinski]

As a side note, my old cat figured out how to open a terminal in the middle of a Windows installation once. I have no idea what she did but she was sitting there all pretty with the terminal open, and windows install screen behind it, still installing.

She must have walked all over the keyboard or something. The key combination for that is Shift+F10 but at least in Win11 setup, it's pretty hard to invoke and you gotta try it over and over again like crazy. I was cursing M$ the last time I had to do it, for that OOBE/BypassNRO.cmd to avoid logging in with Microsoft account. Which reminds me. Anyone remember it used to be called Microsoft Passport?

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

If I right click anywhere I can just do "open terminal" and it opens it with path set to current folder. Including desktop.

This, right click gives you a CMD prompt on w10/11.

Huh, could be useful. Don't suppose there's secret sauce to make it also run as administrator?

Not from the right click menu no, gotta either run as admin manually or run from something already elevated.