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How to add “Open Cmder Here” in context menu on Windows

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Cmder is a powerful command-line interface (CLI) tool for Windows operating systems that aims to enhance the overall command line experience. It provides a comprehensive collection of Unix-like commands, as well as a customizable console emulator that supports multiple tabs and a streamlined user interface.

If you want to add Open Cmder Here in context menu on Windows in a chosen folder then this is what you need to do:

  1. Open a terminal as an Administrator. It can be cmder or Windows cmd, it doesn’t matter.
  2. Navigate to the folder you have placed Cmder. (where you keep cmder.exe file)
  3. Run this command : .\cmder.exe /REGISTER ALL

If you get an “Access Denied” message, make sure you are executing the command in an Administrator prompt.

In a file explorer window right click in or on a directory to see “Cmder Here” in the context menu. If you are on Windows 10 or 11 you probably wont see it immediately. You have to click “Show more options” first and then you will see it there.

Cmder displays {lamb} and {git} instead of λ and current dir

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I recently installed cmder for Windows and when I ran it it was displaying {lamb} and {git} instead of λ and current dir.

Cmder displays {lamb} and {git} instead of λ and current dir

It came with the 0.4.2 version of Clink , which apparently is incompatible or doesnt work best with Windows 10.

Solution is very simple:

1. Go to https://mridgers.github.io/clink/ and download ZIP version of  Clink (.exe is probably OK too but I downloaded ZIP). The new version I downloaded was 0.4.9.

2.  Go to the cmder_mini/vendor folder (where you installed cmder) and rename clink folder to something like clink_original (or you can delete it if you like but I prefer to backup first if something goes wrong) and recreate a folder named clink  and simply extract all files from the downloaded ZIP to this folder.

3. Close (if you had it open) and restart cmder and this is what you should see:

cmder clink