Command Prompt and Windows PowerShell are also simple and built-in options covered in this post for this purpose. We have already seen how to open a file or folder using Command Prompt or PowerShell.

Some MS-DOS Commands 1] Opening MS-DOS To open MS-DOS press Start then type Command or CMD and you will see Command Prompt come up in the search. Click the Command prompt icon to open it or go to ...

Now that Notepad is open, create your first CMD script file by typing the same line you used in the CMD window into notepad: start "c:\windows\system32" notepad.exe ...

If you want to open an Elevated Command Prompt, which is one that runs with Administrator privileges, you can see the How to open a Windows 10 Elevated Command Prompt article instead.

To navigate the Windows file system with CMD, first, open the Command Prompt. For this, press the Windows + X keyboard shortcut and select Command Prompt from the menu.

Adding cmd /k Right-click on the batch file and choose Show more options at the buttom of the menu. Tap on Edit, and your default text editor will open. Now write cmd /k at the end of the batch script ...

Instead of firing up the command prompt and manually navigating the depths of your filesystem, just Shift-Right-click the folder, click Open Command Window Here, and voilà—you're there.

To find Command Prompt’s .exe file, open File Explorer and go to your System Folder > Windows > System32. Here, scroll down until you find the cmd application file.