I don't know how it happened, but since installing Windows XP, some setting must have been changed that caused this behaviour. I am reinstalling Windows, and want to keep this behaviour, but cannot for the life of me figure out how! I have an explorer window open to, for example, D:\Applications (and the window is focused). I then open the command prompt either clicking Start, Run, typing cmd, and hitting "OK," or just using WINKEY+R to get to the run window. The path of the command prompt window that opens up is the same as the explorer window that previously had focus (D:\Applications). On a normal fresh install of Windows XP, the path will always be C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Desktop (afaik), unless the default path is changed. Note: this is not the "Open Command Prompt Here" Powertoy, and nor do I want to use it. I would like to be able to mirror the described behaviour above, not install this Powertoy. So my question is: has anyone else ever experienced this [extremely helpful] behaviour, and do they know how they configured their system to function that way? Attached is an image describing this behaviour.