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There are really a lot of shortcuts and commands in Windows Vista that help you simplify your Windows-life. Anyway the commands I am going to talk about today involve the use of the “Run…” box and may help you solve a lot of issues as well as display and monitor a lot of functions and information in your Vista and XP. The first step to take in order to take advantage of them is to open the “Run…” box which, for some of you may not be that easy. Here is a little trick how to activate it (in Vista). (Alternatively you can always press the Windows Key and R).

List of Commands

1. %AlluserProfile% – Opens all user’s profiles
2. %HomeDrive%- Opens your home drive such as C:
3. %Temp% – Opens the temporary file folder
4. %SystemRoot% – Opens Windows folder
5. Hdwwiz.cpl – Add hardware Wizard
6. Appwiz.cpl – Add/remove programs
7. Calc – Opens calculator
8. Charmap – Open the character map
9. Chkdsk – Opens Check Disk Utility
10. Clipbrd – Opens Clipboard viewer
11. Cmd – Opens Command Prompt
12. Comptmgmt.msc – Opens Computer Management
13. Timedate.cpl -Opens Time and date propierties
14. Devmgmt.msc – Opens Device Manager
15. Diskpart – Opens Disk Partition Manager
16. Control Desktop – Opens Propierties
17. Verifier – Opens Driver Verifier Utility
18. Eventvwr.msc – Opens Event Viewer
19. Freecell  – Opens Freecell game
20. Gpedit.msc – Opens Group Policy Editor
21. Ipconfig/all – Opens IP config (it is accessible also from CMD)
22. Logoff – Log you off from WIndows
23. Notepad – Opens Notepad
24. Regedit – Opens Regedit utility
25. Mstsc – Opens Remote Desktop
26. Control schedtasks – Opens Scheduled Tasks
27. Wscui.cpl – Opens Security Center
28. Services.msc – Open Services
29. Shutdown – Shut down Windows
30. Msconfig – Opens System Configuration Utility
31. Taskmgr – Opens task Manager
32. Utilman – Opens Utility Manager
33. Explorer – Opens Windows Explorer
34. Firewall.cpl – Opens Firewall
35. Winver – Shows Windows version
36. Write – Opens Wordpad

Note: For some reasons not all of these commands work on a specific computer. Some computer may not recognize some of the above commands.