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Go away "Visual Studio 2008 Command Prompt". Give me my regular command prompt
Fresh7 days ago
Mar 15, 2026817 viewsConfidence Score0%
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This VS2008 artifact is truly bugging me. I have lived with it in the Start Menu and always use Windows + R, "cmd", Enter to run the regular command prompt - I just don't like VS trappings and prefer a vanilla command prompt. Well, today it has bugged me for the last time and I tried to remove it f…
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Fix for: Go away "Visual Studio 2008 Command Prompt". Give me my regular command prompt
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Once a program is deemed "worthy" to appear on the front page of the Start menu, Windows selects the most frequently-used shortcut as the one to appear on the front page of the Start menu. So, for example, say you run cmd.exe 100 times from anywhere…
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