It can be annoying to type long path names at the DOS command prompt. To avoid having to do so in Windows, you can enable DOS's auto-completion feature, which is included with every Windows NT (and later) operating system.
Here's how to enable auto-completion:
Go to the registry editor and navigate to the key:
HKEYCurrentUser/Software/Microsoft/Command Processor/
Find the
CompletionChar item and set its value to
9.
That's it. Now return to the DOS prompt to try out the enabled auto-completion feature. Here's an example. Suppose you're at the root folder
c:\ and want to change to the
Documents and Settings folder. Now you can just type
cd doc, and press TAB.
DOS will complete the path for you, expanding the
doc that you typed into
cd "Documents and Settings".
