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little boy blue

Hello everyone,

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A good mate of mine is looking to collate a full list of commands for the run option, he asked me for help, I personally never needed a full list, but I sad I'd find out if theirs one available, the only thing is I cant seam to find any available listing on line.
does anyone know a website, or if I was to e-mail Microsoft and ask them could they provide one - would they?
or would be appreciated,

ta people.

Martyr

There is no official list from Microsoft at the moment.
But the core development team have made one of their priorities, specifically to include such a list in future service pack on the order of Bill Gates.

Anything in the %PATH% environment variable that is recognised as a valid win32 module will execute from the RUN menu.

Usually, by default on windows,
that path will be %SystemRoot% and %SystemRoot%\system32

Which translates into C:\WINDOWS and C:\WINDOWS\System32
on most windows releases installed by default.

so just look in those directories for all the files with .EXE .COM and any possible .VBS .JS extensions appended to their names.

For a full list of recognisable extensions, look at the %PATHEXT% (more on that later)

If you can't see any extensions, its because in the Folder Options->View
'Hide file extensions for known file types' is enabled, or they don't exist,
which is odd.

If you want to RUN more applications, you must add the path of the executable modules to the %PATH% environment variable.

For example, i'm too lazy to place a shortcut on the desktop to mIRC.exe, or maybe my mouse breaks on me sometimes, and it is more convenient to use RUN command than the TAB key.

To add mIRC to the 'list' and then type 'MIRC' from the RUN menu to launch the program, this is what i do.

START->Control Panel->System->Advanced->Environment Variables.
In the System Variables, click on 'Path' in the item list and then select 'Edit' button.

Carefully, push the 'right' arrow cursor key.
Each path is seperated by semi colon.

So type in a semi-colon ';' followed by the directory in which the mIRC executable exists.

It could be perhaps: C:\Program Files\mIRC\ or C:\mIRC\

Just be sure there is back-slash at end of directory.

Click OK when you've finished adding extra directories.
Below the PATH item, you should see PATHEXT.
Editing this will allow you to add and remove extensions which will be used in attempting to execute files from either command prompt or RUN menu.

Click on OK for everything.
Now try.

START->RUN

Type "MIRC" not neccessarily in capital letters, it isn't case sensitive.

And the mIRC application should run.

Hobbes

You can also run anything that has an association with a program.

For example: type in readme.txt

Gurgle

little boy blue wrote:

looking to collate a full list of commands for the run option, he asked me for help

No such thing, you can run any program from the 'run' option.
It depends on what you have installed.

little boy blue

thanks guys, i really appreciate all your input on this....

cheers
LBB.

Capt'n Midnight

You can add a lot of unix/linux commands by installing them.
Mentioning this because they don't change syntax/default options every second version of windows in the same way that the xcopy command (for example) does.
BTW: if you include a drive letter you can use / for local drives instead of \ - eg: c:/

Don't forget it executes the first match it finds in the path - handy to know if you have several versions of the same program. Also you may need to confirm the priority of execution of commands that have the same filename but different extensions in the same folder - eg: .bat .com .exe .vbs etc. this used to be great fun in windows 9x - stick a Win.bat in the root directory and it would get run before win.com.

If you have a command that runs in the RUN box but not the command prompt then try adding the word START in front of it