It is quite easy to start PowerShell commands directly in the Quad Explorer with the current folder path on Windows 11, 10, ... OS!
For some file management tasks, you probably want to open the PowerShell in a specific destination folder in File Explorer to perform more complex tasks that are not possible in File Explorer, or that require specific administrative and system privileges, especially Windows 10 MS PowerShell is the right tool to handle these issues.
PoweShell commands directly in the quad explorer with Armin rights and without!
1. Start the Quad Explorer
2. Navigate / Open the corresponding directory
3. Use the F4 key to focus on the address bar
Tip: For the Modern Address Bar 2 times [F4]
4. Now simply start the PowerShell with [Enter]
or [Enter] + [Ctrl]
| (Image-1) PowerShell commands directly in the Quad-Explorer Start with current directory! |
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If you want to open the file explorer from your current location on the command line, you can do so with the following command: "explorer" cmd.exe knows the start command, which provides a multitude of additional optional commands for running a program offers. The next simple command also opens Explorer in the current folder. In PowerShell, the start command exists as an alias of the Start-Process cmdlet. If you pass the name of a directory as an argument, the Explorer opens at this point. In the above case this would be "C:\Windows\System32" but you can use also a different path.
> start explorer.
If you want to open the file explorer from your current location on the command line, you can do so with the following command: "explorer" cmd.exe knows the start command, which provides a multitude of additional optional commands for running a program offers. The next simple command also opens Explorer in the current folder. In PowerShell, the start command exists as an alias of the Start-Process cmdlet. If you pass the name of a directory as an argument, the Explorer opens at this point. In the above case this would be "C:\Windows\System32" but you can use also a different path.
> start explorer.
Even if you switch to the command line primarily, because you can do in a Windows command prompt many tasks faster than on the GUI, you sometimes want to go the other way too. In this case, it is convenient if you can open in the Quad Explorer or MS File Explorer from the command line directly in the appropriate directory. The management via the Explorer proves to be always more comfortable, if one wants to select a larger number of files for certain operations and these on the command line not simply over patterns such as *.doc,*.txt or the like can be mapped, you probably want to open the File Explorer in PowerShell in a specific destination folder.
