XP: 99 Useful Run Commands

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November 24th, 2005, 05:10 PM
Egaladeist

XP: 99 Useful Run Commands

Nice little site for a variety of reasons...

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Do you use the Run feature in Windows XP? For most, this feature remains unused (or rarely used). Why is that? Well, First off nearly all of the Run Commands Correspond to a particular Control Panel Item or a Utility, Tool or Task that can be accessed through Windows. There are, however, tools and utilities that I bet you never knew you had that can be accessed through the Run feature. The main reason most people don't use the Run feature is because they don't know the Commands. So, to solve that problem, I decided to put together the following listing, which lists 99 Run Commands and what they correspond too...

http://www.fixmyxp.com/content/view/20/42/
FixMyXP.com - Your One Stop Windows XP Fix It Site - 99 Useful Run Commands
November 24th, 2005, 06:43 PM
morganlefay

Thanks Eg

I find command line utils quite handy...specially when the machine is acting up.

MLF
November 24th, 2005, 06:49 PM
Black Cluster

Nifty and swifty, Egal.
I did not know half of them .... :eek:

Cheers
November 24th, 2005, 07:32 PM
PacketThirst

Here's a few more

Internet Explorer = iexplore
FireFoX = firefox
mspaint = mspaint
Acrobat Reader = acrord32
Winrar = winrar

I could just go on and on :-) ....

All of these run commands are the Process names of the applications. The windows task manager can be used to look for the process name while the appication is running. I guess all the programs that ship with windows works with RUN in this way.

Cheers !
November 24th, 2005, 07:49 PM
Noia

winrar dosn't ship with windows :P

Short names work on all applications that are registerd in a certain way and/or exist in %WINDIR% or %SYSTEMDIR% if I recall correctly.
November 24th, 2005, 07:52 PM
sec_ware

Hi

Quote:

I guess all the programs that ship with windows works with RUN in this way.

Let me state more precisely, just for the sake of order:

An executable can be executed with RUN, if it's location (the folder)
is in the %PATH% environment variable[1]. Check the %PATH%
variable via "echo %PATH%" in the command prompt.

Cheers :)

[1] http://kennethhunt.com/archives/000933.html

/edit: consider this post as an appendix to noia's post,
who can type faster than me :)
November 24th, 2005, 07:53 PM
PacketThirst

Nor does Firefox or Acrobat Reader....
Wht i meant was tht most of the third part softwares dont always work in this manner :-)