On 2006-07-12 at 11:00 +0200, Hakim Cassimally wrote:
> windows-r brings up a mini command line. When I used windows I used
> that for pretty much all of my application launching. Sure it mean
> you had to remember "excel" but "winword" and "powerpnt", but with
> command-line completion that wasn't too heavy.
I add aliases.
> I could never quite work out where these names were registered
> (they're not in PATH, but are the short names which respond to "start
> progname" in command line, I rifled through the registry a couple of
> times to try to work it out, unsuccessfully).
I found it, when I got fed up with not being able to run PuTTY that way;
I've since added a few others. The main limitation is that you're
limited to .exe, from what I recall, so no .bat. The other is that
whilst you can specify that a program takes drag&drop, you can't
otherwise massage the parameters. That, in combination with the lack of
.bat files, means that I haven't yet gotten to be able to type "zsh" and
get a properly-working Cygwin zsh setup. By setting the Path first,
it's almost working, but I need to manually source the login files which
do the rest of the critical setup. If someone knows how I can get to
run "zsh -l" then I'll be very interested to know. I suspect that the
answer involves a compiler. ;^)
You can have the target be a .lnk file (pointing directly to the .exe),
so I have pcmd.exe pointing to my menu shortcut for a command-prompt,
which changes the font to something smaller and increases the window
size, etc.
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HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\
Directory: cmdname.exe
(Default) REG_SZ X:\path\to\cmdname.exe
Path REG_SZ X:\path\to\
DropTarget REG_SZ {CLSID}
Default key is command to run.
Option Path key adds a semicolon-separated list of paths to the end of
the %PATH% presented to the program.
DropTarget is IDropTarget implementor; if present, then dropped files
are not put onto the cmdline as parameters but instead passed directly.
<URL:http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/shellcc/platform/shell/programmersguide/shell_basics/shell_basics_extending/fileassociations/fa_perceived_types.asp>
ShellExecute() looks in:
* Current working directory
* Windows directory
* Windows\System32 directory
* Directories listed in PATH environment variable
* the "App Paths" registry key
Order of this lookup varies; XP SP1 moves App Paths to top
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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App
Paths\putty.exe]
@="C:\\Program Files\\PuTTY\\putty.exe"
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> I'd note that windows-m isn't as useful as you'd think for hiding pron
> as it responds very slowly in some cases as every window has to
> respond and animate the minimize window command. The "Show Desktop"
> option is quicker, though I forget what keyboard combination that's
> mapped to.
Windows-D (for Desktop). I use that, Win-R and sometimes Win-E.
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