SyMenu - General discussion & questions - How to launch a CMD shell into a specific director - Messages https://www.ugmfree.it/forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=958 SyMenu - General discussion & questions - How to launch a CMD shell into a specific director - Messages en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Tue, 30 Dec 2025 09:22:39 GMT Tue, 30 Dec 2025 09:22:39 GMT https://www.ugmfree.it/forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=958 Message from Gianluca The double && is needed because I want exit to run only if the first command has completed successfully.
The second exit command is there to prevent the first window (the launcher), opened by SyMenu in its own folder, from staying open.
It’s the dear old batch syntax man smile smile]]> Tue, 30 Dec 2025 09:22:39 GMT https://www.ugmfree.it/forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=958 Message from M4verick Gianluca wrote:
Nice solution, M4verick.
I just want to add my two cents to show that it was also possible to solve the problem using a Windows Command item.

Add a new Windows Command item and fill the Command field with:

start cmd /k "cd /d D:\Misc\Down" && exit

Naturally, replace D:\Misc\Down with your own folder.



Ah, I see. I did play around with that option but I couldn't make it work because I had the quotation marks wrapped around the path like so:

start cmd /k cd /d "D:\Misc\Down"

Thanks for posting the solution!

By the way, why do you need two '&' to make this work? && exit

edited by M4verick on 30/12/2025]]> Tue, 30 Dec 2025 04:38:48 GMT https://www.ugmfree.it/forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=958 Message from Gianluca I just want to add my two cents to show that it was also possible to solve the problem using a Windows Command item.

Add a new Windows Command item and fill the Command field with:

start cmd /k "cd /d D:\Misc\Down" && exit

Naturally, replace D:\Misc\Down with your own folder.]]> Mon, 29 Dec 2025 15:24:24 GMT https://www.ugmfree.it/forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=958 Message from M4verick





edited by M4verick on 28/12/2025]]> Sun, 28 Dec 2025 06:45:18 GMT https://www.ugmfree.it/forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=958 Message from M4verick
I wish to launch Windows Command shell into a specific directory. In another words, when I launch the command shell, I need the command prompt to already be at the following folder:
"C:\folder 1\folder 2"

I know how to configure SyMenu so that the command shell is launched but I'm at a loss on how to do this.]]> Sat, 27 Dec 2025 06:17:07 GMT