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.
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