Get back Command Prompt?

ithehappy

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Hey guys, from some update of Win 10 the Command Prompt is replaced by PowerShell or something, and I don't care, but as I only use Command Prompt to open the fastboot directory to connect my phone I thought PowerShell would be able to do that, but unfortunately it can't! Running commands like adb devices throws some error, which never happened/happens with Command Prompt. So basically I was searching on Google and found this link which asks for a registry edit, I just wanna know is it safe to do that?

http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/cmd-here-windows-10-context-menu-add/

Also just outta curiosity why PowerShell can't open fastboot commands when Command Prompt worked absolutely fine always?
 

quikah

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You probably cannot run adb because it is not in the powershell path. Powershell has a different path setting than cmd. You can see it by typing

Code:
$env:path

to add to the path do

Code:
$env:path += <path>

You can just type cmd from start to get to the old command prompt.

There is an option in taskbar settings to replace CMD with Powershell in the right-click/Win+X menu, uncheck that.
 
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Ichinisan

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Pretty much the only way I access command prompt is with the WinKey+R shortcut, followed by “cmd” [Enter]

Works on all 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows.