Directly open File Explorer, and more from Command Prompt interface
Command Prompt is a powerful program application that works at the core of your operating system environment. But the operating systems these days have provided a unique human-machine interacting environment that we rarely use the Command Prompt to accomplish most of our tasks. So, let’s have a look at some of the command lines that you can use while working on Command Prompt to open system files, specific folders, and much more.
Go to Start->All Programs->Accessories->Command Prompt, and then follow the given below command lines to open files or folders. For better understanding run your Command Prompt interface in minimized mode.
# Open Explorer window
To do this type-in “explorer” in the Command Prompt and hit Enter key. This will open the Explorer window.
# Open the current user account root directory
To open the root directory of the current signed-in account profile (for example administrator account) type-in “start .” and then hit Enter key. The Folder will open.
# Open a specific folder on your hard disk
To open a specific folder from you Command Prompt interface type-in “explorer” followed with a space and the full path of that folder. For example to open a folder having the path C:Documents and SettingsInstablogsMy Documents, type-in the full directory path in Command prompt as shown below:
# Open built-in shell variables
To open in-built Windows shell variable type-in:
Start %APPDATA%
# Open newer shell
You can also open the newer shell: operator style from Command prompt directly by typing-in start shell: startup
