I recently discovered the excellent “console” wrapper for cmd.exe (or the shell of your choice) in Windows.

I had a lot of trouble figuring out how to setup a right-click command to “Open console here” similar to the “Open Command Prompt Here” offered by Microsoft’s “TweakUI” in WinXP (and similar).

I figured it out, tho.  Here’s the trick:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\Open console here\command]
@="u:\\users\\dave\\data\\bin\\Console2\\Console.exe cmd -r \"/k pushd %L\""

That’s it – easy enough. Replace the path to wherever you installed console.exe, of course.

It even works on network volumes (it automatically creates a drive letter mount, the same as does Microsoft’s own Open Command Prompt Here).

I’ve only tested it on Win7, but in principle it ought to work on any recent version of Windows.