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You have a flash drive right? You want to use some command line programs like wget, pscp, or the pstools. You don't want to do: [windowsflag]+r => cmd => cd [flash drive]:\my \documents/programs/blah => pscp -r ...

So make a shortcut on your little flash drive with the following information:

Target: C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /k prompt $P $T:$G && dir
Start in: %CD%

run it, and you get a command line that looks like:

 Volume in drive E is FEATHER
 Volume Serial Number is 0081-10E9

 Directory of E:\

05/30/2007  08:44 PM    <DIR>          ps
05/30/2007  08:44 PM    <DIR>          wget
05/30/2007  08:45 PM               565 command.lnk
10/11/2005  08:41 PM           274,432 pscp.exe
02/24/2007  06:13 PM               473 wget.exe
               3 File(s)        275,470 bytes
               2 Dir(s)   1,040,818,176 bytes free

E:\ 20:45:37.14:>

pscp is the putty scp client direct from the putty site, and wget is the zipped windows version.

revision: where "&& dir", "& dir" will suffice. the latter is sequential execution, the former is simultaneous. I changed this so I could do "& cd cmd & dir" to move to a folder containing all the command-line programs.

more notes can be found searching for "command shell".

I have added to my usb key collection:

puttytray
ssh key
little batch file
commonly used wget cmds