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Welcome back to Tech18,today i am going to teach you how to create your own Run Commands.Using this tutorial you can create any run command, for instannce opening Windows Media Player you can go to start–>run–>wmplayer.exe <press enter>.
Just follow the instructions as shown below carefully :
- Firstly go to Click Start–>Run—>then type regedit and hit enter.
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- Now navigate to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurr entVersionApp Paths - Right-Click on App Paths and select> New> Key
- Title the new key the name of the application, in this case lets consider you want create a run command for Opera.exe.
- Right-Click the default string value and click Modify.
- Change the value to the path of the executable you want to run. E.g. C:Program FilesOpera 9opera.exe.
- Now, in the white space below right click anywhere and select New> String Value.
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- Name it Path and enter the value as C:Program FilesOpera 9opera.exe.
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- That’s it, the two keys should like as shown below, now close the registry editor.
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- Go to start> Run> type your run command and hit enter. In the above case its Opera.exe. Opera will launch within seconds.
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You can do this for any application. All you need to do is enter the path of the application you want to open and also make sure that you remember the name of the key that you give as you have to enter it to launch it.
Comments are welcome !!!!!!!!!!



very nice tutorial,it has helped me in customizing my current operating system
Thanks once again
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Thanks for commenting

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I do not want to just create a batch (.bat) file if possible. I would like to assign a command such as “//steam: and have it run steam.exe…just as an example.
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This is a nice tutorial. Very detailed instructions and i agree, this really helps a lot in customizing operating system. Thanks a million times for this post sunil jain.. =)
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WOW! I guess I just found the right tutorial that I have been looking for in a while.. I admit, this is a very detailed tutorial and really helpful for my OS customization. Thanks a lot sunil jain!
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Sunil Jain Reply:
January 22nd, 2010 at 12:22 am
Thanks for commenting Gochi

I am glad that it helped you
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Thanks – I didn’t even know you could use regedit for that.
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Sunil Jain Reply:
January 26th, 2010 at 8:28 pm
Thanks Vent
for commenting
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Gee, Now I can do more shortcuts and commands in my own computer. I really thank you for sharing it to us. This is a great tutorial video I have seen this 2010. It is very detailed and very comprehend-able. More power.
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