{"id":16480,"date":"2020-10-26T04:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T04:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=16480"},"modified":"2020-10-26T04:00:47","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T04:00:47","slug":"open-file-explorer-from-command-prompt-in-windows-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/open-file-explorer-from-command-prompt-in-windows-10\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Open File Explorer from Command Prompt in Windows 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How do I open a File Explorer window in a given directory from cmd.exe? Previously we&#8217;ve covered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/5-methods-to-open-file-explorer-in-windows-8-1\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">many ways to open File Explorer<\/a> in Windows 10, but here I&#8217;ll show you how to open File Explorer in a specific folder using Command Prompt.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/open-file-explorer-in-specific-folder.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"265\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16486\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/open-file-explorer-in-specific-folder.png 600w, https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/open-file-explorer-in-specific-folder-300x133.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Method 1: Using the Start Command Line to Open File Explorer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/open-command-prompt-in-windows-10\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Open the Command Prompt window<\/a>, type the following command and press Enter. This will launch File Explorer and open the current folder location that you were in at the Command Prompt.<br \/>\n<code>start .<\/code><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/use-start-command-to-open-file-explorer.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"551\" height=\"143\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/use-start-command-to-open-file-explorer.png 551w, https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/use-start-command-to-open-file-explorer-300x78.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 551px) 100vw, 551px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To open a specific folder, simply run the command below. The folder path must be double quoted even if it doesn&#8217;t contain spaces. The first quoted argument will be interpreted as the window tile, and we can leave it empty.<br \/>\n<code>start  \"\"  \"your_folder_path\"<\/code><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/open-specific-folder-from-cmd.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"554\" height=\"132\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16485\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/open-specific-folder-from-cmd.png 554w, https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/open-specific-folder-from-cmd-300x71.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 554px) 100vw, 554px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Method 2: Using the Explorer Command Line to Open File Explorer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Open the Command Prompt window, type <strong>explorer<\/strong> and hit Enter. It will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/windows-10-make-file-explorer-open-this-pc-instead-of-quick-access\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">open File Explorer to Quick access or This PC<\/a> depending on your Folder Options setting.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to open File Explorer in a specific folder, then type the following command. Make sure the folder path is enclosed in double quotes if it contains spaces.<br \/>\n<code>explorer \"your_folder_path\"<\/code><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/open-file-explorer-via-cmd.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"140\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/open-file-explorer-via-cmd.png 550w, https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/open-file-explorer-via-cmd-300x76.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The above commands also work at Windows PowerShell console.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do I open a File Explorer window in a given directory from cmd.exe? Previously we&#8217;ve covered many ways to open File Explorer in Windows 10, but here I&#8217;ll show you how to open File Explorer in a specific folder using Command Prompt. Method 1: Using the Start Command Line to Open File Explorer Open [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10,1894],"tags":[4571,4573,4572],"class_list":["post-16480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-10","tag-open-file-explorer-from-command-prompt","tag-open-file-explorer-from-powershell","tag-open-folder-in-command-prompt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16480"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16491,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16480\/revisions\/16491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}