Today I was just playing with Windows XP Registry Editor and suddenly I found a way to make our own Run Commands.
Before moving further I feel a need to tell you what are Run Commands. As we know that when we will type IEXPLORE.EXE in the RUN, Internet Explorer will execute, in the same way when we will type pinball.exe and hit enter, Pinball game will execute. In the above two examples IEXPLORE.EXE and pinball.exe are the Run Commands that we use as a shortcut to execute desired programs.
Today I am going to tell you that how you can create your own Run Commands to open any program you want.
Let's start :Below is a step by step procedure :
1) Open
Start Menu and click on
RUN.
2) Now type
regedit and hit
Enter. (regedit means Registry Editor)
3) Now navigate to the following path :
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE >> SOFTWARE >> Microsoft >> Windows >> CurrentVersion >> App PathsNote : To explain you clearly, I take an example to make a Run Command to open
Adobe Photoshop.4) Now
right click on
App Paths and select
New >> Key and name is as
Gagan.exe
5) Now highlight
Gagan.exe and have a look at the right hand side panel. You will see a
String Value named
default. Double click on it and in the value data field enter the path of the program that you want you want to execute. As an example I entered
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS3\Photoshop.exe as I want to open
Adobe Photoshop.
You can enter the path of any executable file you want.
6) Now
right click on right hand side panel and select
New >> String Value and name is as
Path.
7) Double click on
Path and enter the path of the folder where the executable file is and put a
semicolon at the end of the path. In my case it is
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS3;
8) Now click
OK and close
Registry Editor.
Restart your PC and in the
RUN type
Gagan.exe and hit
enter. Hitting enter will result in opening in
Adobe Photoshop.
In this way you can create your own Run Commands by naming key from Gagan.exe to any text you want.
3) Windows will automatically release network settings, obtain new ones for you and a new Window will pop saying :
3) Windows will automatically release network settings, obtain new ones for you and a new Window will pop saying :
