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Tiny Pro Tips for Windows

Shiono Yoshihide on August 19, 2018

Hi, today I'll show you my favorite tiny tips for Windows. Usually we use "right click" and see some context menu like this: This right click c...
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DJ Quecke

Perfect timing. I just put together a new computer and I've missed the CMD Prompt feature I had installed on my last machine. I meant to go looking for it and it came to me....Thanks Much

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Andy Zhao (he/him)

Awesome, great tips! Definitely going to play with editing regedit.exe.

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Shiono Yoshihide

Thanks Andy!
And you can customize any registered executables! :)

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Jess Lee

Hey Shiono! Just wanted to share that you can embed github repos with this syntax:

{% github https://github.com/saltyshiomix/tiny-pro-tips-for-windows %}

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Shiono Yoshihide

Thank you for letting me know!
I'ts so nice to use, I remember it :)

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Chiffre

that cmdExeHere is not needed :) just go to explorer -> open folder where you want your cmd -> go to navigation of cmd -> type cmd

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Shiono Yoshihide

Oh I don't know that!!
Thank you for letting me know :)

(But may be legacy Windows like Win7, that navigation is not supported, yet)

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Patrik Kristian

I year use my tuned version of Total Commander and theese functions are implemented there as well :)