How to Create Your Own Customized Run Commands
The Run command on Microsoft
Windows operating system allows you to directly open an application or document
with just a single command instead of navigating to it’s location and
double-clicking the executable icon.
However, it only works for some of
the inbuilt Windows programs such as Command prompt (cmd), Calculator
(calc) etc.
So, have you ever wondered how to create your own customized
Run commands for accessing your favorite programs, files and folders? Well,
read on to find out the answer.
Creating the Customized Run Command
Let me take up an example of how to
create a customized run command for opening the Internet explorer. Once you
create this command, you should be able to open the Internet explorer just by
typing “ie” (without quotes) in the Run dialog box. Here is how you can do
that.
1. Right click on your Desktop and
select New -> Shortcut.
2. You will see a “Create Shortcut”
Dialog box as shown below
3. Click on “Browse”, navigate to:
Program Files -> Internet Explorer from your Root drive (usually C:\) and
select “iexplore” as shown in the above figure and click on “OK”.
4. Now click on “Next” and type any
name for your shortcut. You can choose any name as per your choice; this will
be your customized “Run command”. In this case I name my shortcut as “ie”.
Click on “Finish”.
5. You will see a shortcut named
“ie” on your desktop. All you need to do is just copy this shortcut and paste
it in your Windows folder (usually “C:/Windows”). Once you have copied the
shortcut onto your Windows folder, you can delete the one on your Desktop.
6. That’s it! From now on, just open
the Run dialog box, type ie and hit Enter to open the Internet
Explorer.
In this way you can create
customized Run commands for any program of your choice. Say “ff” for Firefox,
“ym” for Yahoo messenger, “wmp” for Windows media player and so on.
To do this, when you click on
“Browse” in the Step-3, just select the target program’s main executable
(.exe) file which will usually be located in the C:\Program Files folder.
Give a simple and short name for this shortcut as per your choice and copy the
shortcut file onto the Windows folder as usual.
Now just type this short name
in the Run dialog box to open the program.
Enjoy HAcking
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