Accessibility Controls -- access.cpl
Add Hardware Wizard -- hdwwiz.cpl
Add/Remove Programs -- appwiz.cpl
Administrative Tools -- control admintools
Automatic Updates -- wuaucpl.cpl
Bluetooth Transfer -- Wizard fsquirt
Calculator -- calc
Certificate Manager -- certmgr.msc
Character Map -- charmap
Check Disk Utility -- chkdsk
Clipboard Viewer -- clipbrd
Command Prompt -- cmd
Component Services -- dcomcnfg
Computer Management -- compmgmt.msc
Date and Time Properties -- timedate.cpl
DDE Shares -- ddeshare
Device Manager -- devmgmt.msc
Direct X Control Panel (If Installed)* -- directx.cpl
Direct X Troubleshooter -- dxdiag
Disk Cleanup Utility -- cleanmgr
Disk Defragment -- dfrg.msc
Disk Management -- diskmgmt.msc
Disk Partition Manager -- diskpart
Display Properties control -- desktop
Display Properties -- desk.cpl
Display Properties (w/Appearance Tab Preselected) -- control color
Dr. Watson System Troubleshooting -- Utility drwtsn32
Driver Verifier -- Utility verifier
Event Viewer -- eventvwr.msc
File Signature Verification Tool -- sigverif
Findfast -- findfast.cpl
Folders Properties -- control folders
Fonts control -- fonts
Fonts Folder -- fonts
Free Cell Card Game -- freecell
Game Controllers -- joy.cpl
Group Policy Editor (XP Prof -- ) gpedit.msc
Hearts Card Game -- mshearts
Iexpress Wizard -- iexpress
Indexing Service -- ciadv.msc
Internet Properties -- inetcpl.cpl
IP Configuration (Display Connection Configuration) -- ipconfig /all
IP Configuration (Display DNS Cache Contents) -- ipconfig /displaydns
IP Configuration (Delete DNS Cache Contents) -- ipconfig /flushdns
IP Configuration (Release All Connections) ipconfig /release
IP Configuration (Renew All Connections) -- ipconfig /renew
IP Configuration (Refreshes DHCP & Re-Registers DNS) -- ipconfig /registerdns
IP Configuration (Display DHCP Class ID) -- ipconfig /showclassid
IP Configuration (Modifies DHCP Class ID) -- ipconfig /setclassid
Java Control Panel (If Installed) -- jpicpl32.cpl
Java Control Panel (If Installed) -- javaws
User Account Management -- nusrmgr.cpl
Utility Manager -- utilman
Windows Firewall -- firewall.cpl
Windows Magnifier -- magnify
Windows Management Infrastructure -- wmimgmt.msc
Windows System Security Tool -- syskey
Windows Update Launches -- wupdmgr
Windows XP Tour Wizard -- tourstart
WordPad -- write
Friday, August 7, 2009
Run Commands
Speed up Windows XP's defrag operations
One simple way to speed up the defrag operation in Windows XP is to restart your computer before you launch Defrag. Doing so allows the operating system to clear out the swap/paging file and reset it to the default size. Hence Defrag focus strictly on the necessary data on the hard disk without having to stop and manage a huge swap file loaded with unneeded data.
An alternate approach of speeding up the defrag operation in Windows XP is to configure it to occur immediately upon startup. You can do so easily using registry edit:
1. Open the Registry Editor by typing “regedit” in Run window. Registry Editor window opens.
2. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce.
3. Now Right-click on the “RunOnce” subkey and select New String Value.
4. Name the new String value as “Defrag” and hit “Enter” twice.
5. Next type Defrag.exe c: /f in the Value Data text box and click OK.
6. After finishing Close the Registry Editor and restart Windows.
The above method can be used for both Windows XP Home and Professional Editions.
Remove Pen Drive Virus
Viruses such as “autorun” and “Ravmon” virus mostly affect the pen drive. Most of the Antivirus does not detect such kind of viruses. Such viruses are spread mostly through pen drive. So now you can protect your computer from such kind of viruses by doing the following steps.
1. Plug your USB drive in your system.
2. You will be prompted by a dialog box as shown below.
3. If you can see the dialog box just click Cancel. Don’t try to open your pen drive.
4. If you were not able to view the dialog box do nothing, just check whether your pen drive appears in My Computer window. Don’t try to open your pen drive. If you could not able see your pen drive try to remove and plug it again.
5. Now go to Start--> Run and type cmd to open the Command Prompt window.
6. Go to My Computer and Check the Drive letter of your USB drive or Pen Drive. (E.g. If it is written Transcend (J :) , then J: will be the drive letter.)
7. Type the drive letter followed by a colon (e.g “J:”) inn the Command Window and Hit Enter.
8. Then type dir/w/o/a/p and Hit Enter
9. Now you will get a list of files. In the list of files, search if anyone of the following exist
a.Autorun.inf
b.NewFolder.exe
c.Bha.vbs
d.Iexplore.vbs
e.Info.exe
f.New_Folder.exe
g.Ravmon.exe
h.RVHost.exe or any other files with .exe Extension .
10. If you could find any one of the files above, Run the command attrib -h -r -s -a *.* and Hit Enter.
11. Next type the following command to delete each File.
12. The Command to type is del filename (E.g. del autorun.inf).
Now you are done and your USB drive is virus free. Scan your pen drive using any antivirus tool to check whether it is virus free.
Enabling Capslock, Numlock and Scroll Lock in System Startup
If you wish to enable the startup state of CapsLock, NumLock and ScrollLock keys do the following steps.
1. Open Registry editor by typing regedit in run window.
2. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Control Panel \ Keyboard.
3. Open InitialKeyboardIndicators
4. Now change the values as follows
a. 0 - All Keys off
b. 1 - Caps Lock on
c. 2 - Num Lock on
d. 4 - Scroll Lock on
e. 3 - Caps Lock and Num Lock on
f. 5 - Caps Lock and Scroll Lock on
g. 6 - Num Lock and Scroll Lock on
h. 7 - Caps Lock, Num Lock, and Scroll Lock on
After you have changed the values logoff or restart your system for the changes to take effect.
Windows Explorer opens Search instead of folder
Windows Explorer sometimes opens Search companion instead of folder. This may be caused due to invalid settings for opening folder. It can also be caused due to some external programs (virus).
To overcome this start registry editor by typing “regedit” in run window.
ie) Start --> Run --> regedit and press Enter.
Now the registry window opens. Navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT \ Directory \ shell. Edit the default value to be explorer or none.
Common Control Panel Applets
Following are some common Control Panel Applets that are located in the \windows\system32 directory. Try using the following if you don’t wish to open Control Panel window and then choose the items from it.
appwiz.cpl -->>Add/Remove Programs
desk.cpl -->> Display Properties
firewall.cpl -->> Firewall Settings
inetcpl.cpl -->> Internet Options
mmsys.cpl -->> Sound and Audio
ncpa.cpl -->> Network Connections
nusrmgr.cpl -->> User Accounts
powercfg.cpl -->> Power Options
sysdm.cpl -->>System Properties
wscui.cpl -->> Security Center
wuaucpl.cpl -->> Automatic Updates Configuration Go to Top
Changing User Account Password from Command Prompt
Use Account Password can be changed from the Command Prompt on any system which runs on Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. This method works for computers which has the User Account on a workstation, a stand-alone server, or a Windows domain controller. The only thing you have to do is that you must log in as an Administrator and type the following in Command Prompt. Use your own username.
It prompts for a password. Type a new password and not the existing password. After you type the password the system prompts you for the confirmation to type the password again. Type again the same password and it’s done. Now your password has changed successfully.
Also if you don’t wish to prompt for the confirmation of password type the following in command prompt.
You can also change the password of a batch file using the above command. Also if you didn’t add /domain switch on a member server or workstation, the command will be performed on the local SAM and not on DC SAM.
If you wish to change the password for Administrator account, check whether you have logged in as a administrator and type the following.
If you are not the administrator you receive an error message stating “Access Denied”.
