The cmd command cd takes me to a directory I never spend any time in.
I would like it to take me to C:\Users\Kacy\Documents\ by default.
Unfortunately, set cd = C:\Users\Kacy\Documents\ does not work.
Is there a simple way to change this setting within the cmd terminal ?
The command cd without any arguments simply displays the current directory; it doesn't "take you" anywhere.
From an already open command prompt, you can't change this using simply cd. You can write a batch file that does it for you, and run that instead. Create a plain text file with Notepad that contains just one line.
cd /d"C:\Users\Kacy\Documents"
Save it as MyDocs.bat or something that you can remember easily.
If you want a command prompt to always open in a certain location, create a desktop shortcut to it with the command (program)
cmd /k cd /d"Yourdirectory"
And then double-click that desktop shortcut to open the command prompt.
Note the double quotes around the directory name are necessary if the directory name includes spaces.