unusual Windows RUN commands

[JoeP]

I was not aware of these - Windows Run commands you probably never knew.

Note: Number 3 does not open "Computer" on my Win7 Ultimate x-64 system.

Joe

[ChrisGreaves]

I was not aware of these

"The home directory is located at C:\Documents and Settings\Username in Windows XP and C:\Users\Username in Windows Vista and 7. The quickest way to open this directory is to open the Run box (Win+R) and type “.” – a single dot. Then hit enter. Try it."

Cool. Works on Win XP/SP3

[stuck]

open the Run box (Win+R) and type “.” – a single dot. Then hit enter. Try it. Cool. Works on Win XP/SP3

Also works on Win 2000, just tried it.

Ken

[StuartR]

This is nothing special about the run dialog box.
These are standard terminology
. = current folder
.. = parent of current folder
... = parent of parent of current folder
\ = root drive for current folder

[stuck]

Ah! Good ol' MSDOS navigation commands, I remember them (I didn't actually follow the link in JoeP's post until Stuart made his comment )

I still resort to them in a Command window on rare occasions but I can't see me needing them in a GUI. I keep Explorer running all the time so any folder I may want is never more than a few mouse clicks away and that suits my style of working better than keyboard shortcuts.

Ken

[ChrisGreaves]

Also works on Win 2000, just tried it.

(thinks) "Where's that ME CD I had a few months ago ...?"
I'm with Stuart; I suspect that like most of the stuff I use/teach, it was sitting there in Windows 3.1, at least.
Odd that some, say, 20 years after we started using Windows we are still stumbling over "neat tricks", and we are supposed to be the experts!

[HansV]

I used to be a pert...

[stuck]

expert
pronounced: X-spurt
definition: 'X' meaning past it and 'spurt' meanig a drip under pressure

Ken

[Bigaldoc]

... I keep Explorer running all the time so any folder I may want is never more than a few mouse clicks away ...

Yeah!!!

[Cellmate]

I remember these from the pre-windows days, back in ye olde DOS days, as parts of the change directory command.



Cellmate

[John Gray]

I remember these from the pre-windows days, back in ye olde DOS days, as parts of the change directory command.

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." (probably first said by George Santayana)

And since when is DOS "ye olde"? I use the Command Prompt Window many times a day, at home and at work...

[ChrisGreaves]

And since when is DOS "ye olde"?

It's OK John, Cellmate probably thinks 6.1 is an old version :giggle:

[Cellmate]

And since when is DOS "ye olde"?

It's OK John, Cellmate probably thinks 6.1 is an old version :giggle:

Now, now. It's true, I don't go back as far as some, but I remember using CP/M and, I think my first DOS ver. was 2.2.

I worked at a company that ran all of it's computing on a DEC PDP 11, which had a "massive" hard disk drive holding 5! count 'em' 5 MB!

A couple years later I went to work in a different co. that left behind the olde PDP 11 and went to networked IBM AT (6 Mhz processors & 30 MB HDD and 3 satelite IBM XTs (4.7 Mhz & 20 MB HDD) *state of the art!*

Cellmate