Topic: Open XP Utilities from the Command Line

[toasty0]

Compliments of WinXPNews? http://www.winxpnews.com/?id=162?

For you XP users who think of yourself as real men...

Are you a command line sort of guy (or gal)? Would you prefer to type program names into the Run box instead of clicking through menus? Hey, it takes all kinds. Here are the commands to open some of XP's commonly used utilities from the command line:


Computer Management: compmgmt.msc
Device Manager: devmgmt.msc
Disk Defragmenter: dfrg.msc
Event Viewer: eventvwr.msc
Local users and groups: lusrmgr.msc
Local security settings: secpol.msc

Jerry

[Iceman]

I've got a friend upstairs who uses ONLY the command line.

Whats funnier, is that his background is just black, and his toolbar is gone. Without the mouse on screen, you can't tell if his computer is on or off.

[toasty0]

That reminds me of my bother and myself. I started fooling aorund with computers on the oold Mac and got used to the folder/directory method. My bother, otoh, cut his teath on the old IBM/PC system and Windows 3.1 and would much rather use the tree view interface.

I have to admit that with his way you don't have to remember shinola about where something is in the directory. Treeviews are very helpful for drooling idiots. hehehehe...

[Pestalence_XC]

Just to let you all know

Any command line command can be executed in explorer or internet explorer in the address bar... The Address bar operates like the Run command and all 3 methods first check for programs on your system, then command line functions, then it goes into web site search and site finding...

If you want to launch a program, such as on my system is a little used program, but very helpful when tinkering with audio files, I enter Sony Sound Forge in to the address bar.. and wha la, since I have a desktop shortcut called Sony Sound Forge, the program launches.. if I just used SSFGE.exe, which is the main program file, then it launches...

I usually use this to launch programs that are not on my desktop, and a there are many times I have desktop icons hidded because of my son, as such the address bar will do the same thing...

I use services.msc quite a lot, I usually launch this using the address bar... I also reset my TCP/IP connection using the address bar with the command line command :

netsh int ip reset c:\resetlog.txt

Using a command such as this in the address bar will automatically launch the CMD.exe to process of resetting TCP/IP.. also using ipconfig /release and ipconfig /renew works in the same manner as well as sfc /purgecache... it all works from the address bar or from the run from the start menu.....

launching cmd.exe is just an extra step.. the only difference in using the address bar and using the cmd.exe window is that when the dos window doing the process launched from the address bar is finished, the dos window will close.. using the cmd.ede then running the processes, then the window will not close automatically..

just thought you should know.

[toasty0]

Thanks, Pesty. I had forgotten about that.