How to set Title of CMD to current working Directory in Win XP

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Published on 2010-05-20T13:01:56Z Indexed on 2010/05/20 13:02 UTC
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How does one set the title of the of the Command Prompt (CMD) in Windows XP to the current working directory dynamically ? I can use

title %cd%

however, this is a temporary fix and the title remains fixed when I change directory using the cd command.

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