If you use Windows command prompt often and want to do things more quickly and effectively, check out the Open Command prompt Shell Extension. It's a great application that adds command prompt to your context menu (Right click menu) and whenever you want to use it, right click and click Open command prompt, it's that simple.

It's a very small open source app (in KB's) and supports 2000/2003/XP/Vista (Both x86 32- x86-64), multiple languages and network paths. With the ability to open a command prompt by right-clicking on any empty screen space in the directory and viewing the selected directories it eliminates the need to navigate up a level in order to open a command prompt in the current directory.

Download Command Prompt Shell Extension