Those of us who were using Windows XP and Microsoft PowerToys Command Prompt Here would miss this feature in Windows Vista. You will find that there is no equivalent of such a utility by Microsoft for Vista. This is so because of an obvious reason. Vista has already this feature built-in.
Open up Windows Explorer, hold the [Shift] key down, right-click on any folder on the details pane on the right, you will see "Open Command Window Here" menu item third in the pop-up menu. However, if you do this on the folder pane on the left of the Windows Explorer, this will not work. Disappointed?
Another way is to modify Vista's registry. Here is how this can be done. Navigate in your Registry to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Classes/Folder/Shell and create a key called Open Command Prompt Here. Set the default string to whatever text you want to appear in the right-click menu. Create a new key within your newly created command prompt named "command," and set the default string to cmd.exe /k pushd %L. You may need to add %SystemRoot%\system32\ before the cmd.exe if the executable can't be found.
The changes should take place immediately. Right click a folder in both the right and left panes of your Windows Explorer and your new menu item should appear.
