{"id":5878,"date":"2014-09-03T00:21:41","date_gmt":"2014-09-02T16:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=5878"},"modified":"2014-09-03T00:21:41","modified_gmt":"2014-09-02T16:21:41","slug":"windows-tip-opening-command-prompt-to-a-specific-folder-from-gui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2014\/09\/03\/windows-tip-opening-command-prompt-to-a-specific-folder-from-gui\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows Tip: Opening Command Prompt to a specific folder from GUI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just noticed somebody who was using windows 7 and was opening a command prompt console using start menu and typing the path.<br \/>\nNo problem with this except there is a simpler way.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nFor windows 7 just press the &lt;SHIFT&gt; key and right-click the folder and choose<strong> &#8220;Open command window here&#8221;.<\/strong><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nThis works for shortcuts and for whenever you have a windows explorer open and suddenly need to do something from the command line.<br \/>\nAlso if you are using Ubuntu there is a package you can install to do something similar. The package is\u00a0<strong><span style=\"color: #222222;\">nautilus-open-terminal.<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nFor windows XP: Why the hell are you still using Windows XP? Just google it, or better yet install a newer os like the latest ubuntu.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just noticed somebody who was using windows 7 and was opening a command prompt console using start menu and typing the path. No problem with this except there is a simpler way. &nbsp; For windows 7 just press the &lt;SHIFT&gt; key and right-click the folder and choose &#8220;Open command window here&#8221;. &nbsp; This works &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2014\/09\/03\/windows-tip-opening-command-prompt-to-a-specific-folder-from-gui\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Windows Tip: Opening Command Prompt to a specific folder from GUI&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[370,944,1446],"class_list":["post-5878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coding","tag-console","tag-microsoft-windows","tag-ubuntu"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}