Have you ever done something on your computer without really thinking about it, but the person next to you has a surprised and confused look on their face? If so, then you might have performed a Stupid Geek Trick. Today we’ll show how to open an Explorer window from the current command prompt directory.

Let’s begin… just open up a command prompt and then type in the following (the . passes the current directory to Explorer)

explorer .

You’ll immediately see an Explorer window show up with the contents of the directory your command prompt is in.