Running with the Run Command

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The Start menu's Run command provides a way to start programs (or open documents or folders, or navigate to Web sites) by entering a command string. Apart from its accommodation of users who actually prefer typing command strings to selecting from menus, the Run command has two virtues: it allows you to specify command-line parameters along with the name of a program, and it maintains a most-recently-used (MRU) list so that you can easily reuse command strings.

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For information about creating and using shortcuts, see "Creating a Shortcut."

Windows-based programs seldom require command-line parameters, but many accept them. For example, to run Notepad and open the file c:\autoexec.bat at the same time, you could click the Start button, choose Run, and type

notepad c:\autoexec.bat

(Note that if you just typed c:\autoexec.bat, the program Cmd.exe, which provides MS-DOS functionality in the Microsoft Windows 2000 environment, would run the batch file instead of opening it for edit.)

If you're not sure what to put on the Run command's command line, the Browse button can help. For example, if you want to run a particular program that's not on your Start menu, but you're not sure how to enter the path to the folder where that program lives, you can choose Run, click Browse, and then use the Browse dialog box to navigate to the appropriate folder. (Alternatively, you can use the Search Assistant. For more details, see Chapter 11, "Searching for Files and Folders.")



Running Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
Running Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
ISBN: 1572318384
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2000
Pages: 317

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