PowerShell – Add PowerShell to Context Menu

Here’s a holiday hack for PowerShell. If you would like the ability to right-click on a directory and have PowerShell open to that directory here’s what you do…

1. Open the registry on the system you want to do this on (regedit.exe)
2. Navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\directory\shell

3. Right-click and create a new key called PowerShellPrompt

4. Rename the Default Data to “PoSH Here” or something similar. This is what will display in the context menu when you right-click

5. Right-click on the PowerShellPrompt key and create a new key. Name it Command

6. Change the Default data to the following command-line

powershell.exe -noprofile start-process  powershell.exe -verb runas -argumentlist "{ -noprofile -noexit cd %1}

7. Now, when you right-click on a directory, An elevated PowerShell prompt will open at that directory

8. If you want to load your profile when this prompt opens, remove the second “-noprofile” from the command-line

powershell.exe -noprofile start-process  powershell.exe -verb runas -argumentlist "{ -noexit cd %1}"

9. If you want to have an Icon show up in the Context menu add the following String value to the PowerShellPrompt key

Thanks for reading,
Alain