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 in the Run dialog box. Here is how you can do that.
Right-click on your Desktop and select New -> Shortcut.
You will see a “Create Shortcut” Dialog box as shown below
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”.
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”.
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.
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.
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Great post i was waiting for post frm one month
Hey Nice Article, That is something i was looking for…
This is nice but I have a simpler trick than this. Go to System Properties.
Select on Advanced tab.
Click on “Environment Variables” button.
In the system variable list box, double click on Path item.
In the Variable Value text box, just give the path the path of your desktop (Or some other folder where you have your shortcuts). Click ok and close the dialog.
Now try the trick.
heyy it really works…but i have a doubt that what is the need of doing this…we can easyly go to ant thing by double click on that…and can u tell me some cmd quotes to access any folder…
Yo man.!!!!!!!!!
its really amazing and nice.. very useful post. thanks for sharing. keep posting such a good posts.
Hello Srikanth,
i follow your site regularly and this article is just amazing,very good yar i liked it very much.
hope you will always serve us a good article and tips like this.
thank you.
hey can i share your article on my site,with a black link to your site as source?just asking you.
It is ok till step5 but in step 6, it`s not working.The error shown is “Make sure u have typed the letter correct”.
I had tried with other s/w’s also.
Hi,
Great post.Wroks well, Its save lot of time.
Nice post..
Can u post some hacks using Linux OS like Ubuntu?..
Hlw sir thanks for this tricks this is great one.
My start menu shows empty while searching all programs, i am using xp please help me about fixing this problem.
Very interesting… but I’m not sure I see the point in doing this, wouldn’t it be faster to just have the shortcut on your desktop?
This post is really nice…. from this post i got some information… Thank you…..
What a wonderful post. man, you are the bomb
@ Jeet Dholakia
Yes you can share. But don’t forget to mention the source of the article with a backlink.
@ Reena
If you follow each step correctly, I think everything should work fine. This trick can work for any program and can save you a lot of time.
@ Rocky and all those who doesn’t see the point in doing this trick
First of all, creating a shortcut command can save you a lot of time in program execution. As you can choose your own name for the command it becomes easy to remember them. Secondly as the number of desktop shortcut increases, PC booting time and overall speed/performance will decrease. Having too many shortcuts can make your desktop look ugly as well. I prefer to have not more than 6 desktop shortcuts.
it’s so simple….
maine to kuch bda socha tha.
very good option
awesome post dude…i wanna learn something bigger
more easy than i understood…
dude ur post is really helpful !!! thnx….!
i find it out myself 2 years ago.
nice to see it here.
nice tips bro..thanks for sharing..expecting some more from u..
damn tha was really dope, i love it
It’s COol………………
Nice trick.Thank you a lot for sharing
very nice………..
Thank a lot. Thi is very useful 4 m.
dude great work..
wow it was great and very useful
very nice and useful lesson.sometime when can’t use mouse we can use this method easily.
good one sir…
fantastic wow
really good one..!!
Nice post
Wonderfull this thing works I gotta recommend this to my friends
mind blowing
awesome
Yep, if u hv created ur own program then it is the safe way ro acces, cool
nice post dear….
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hai srikanth it is nice i will recommand it to my friends also
simply great…:)
Extraordinary mate Keep continuing this good jobs
Nice Bro……
Nice article .Keep gooing….
by sharing this type of articles
thanks a lot.
always you guys have amazing stuff
and also this is very great thing to do.
thank you
and
well done
Awesome post…
Can you please tell me how to put your own folder in “SEND TO” list, which appears in pop menu on right clicking.
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