In windows RUN service box used for getting to an app or to other service easily by its shortcut name. Here is a list of many useful beginner and professional commands you can use on run dialog box to get to the application of your choice fast and easily. Use and enjoy

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
timedate.cpl——- 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
Keyboard Properties——- control keyboard
Local Security Settings——- secpol.msc
Local Users and Groups——- lusrmgr.msc
Logs You Out Of Windows——- logoff
Microsoft Chat——- winchat
Minesweeper Game——- winmine
Mouse Properties——- control mouse
Mouse Properties——- main.cpl
Network Connections——- control netconnections
Network Connections——- ncpa.cpl
Network Setup Wizard——- netsetup.cpl
Notepad——- notepad
Nview Desktop Manager (If Installed)——- nvtuicpl.cpl
Object Packager——- packager
ODBC Data Source Administrator——- odbccp32.cpl
On Screen Keyboard——- osk
Opens AC3 Filter (If Installed)——- ac3filter.cpl
Password Properties——- password.cpl
Performance Monitor—— perfmon.msc
Performance Monitor——- perfmon
Phone and Modem Options——- telephon.cpl
Power Configuration——- powercfg.cpl
Printers and Faxes——- control printers
Printers Folder——- printers
Private Character Editor——- eudcedit
Quicktime (If Installed)——- QuickTime.cpl
Regional Settings——- intl.cpl
Registry Editor——- regedit
Registry Editor——- regedit32
Remote Desktop——- mstsc
Removable Storage——- ntmsmgr.msc
Removable Storage Operator Requests——- ntmsoprq.msc
Resultant Set of Policy (XP Prof)——- rsop.msc
Scanners and Cameras——- sticpl.cpl
Scheduled Tasks——- control schedtasks
Security Center——- wscui.cpl
Services——- services.msc
Shared Folders——- fsmgmt.msc
Shuts Down Windows——- shutdown
Sounds and Audio——- mmsys.cpl
Spider Solitare Card Game——- spider
SQL Client Configuration——- cliconfg
System Configuration Editor——- sysedit
System Configuration Utility——- msconfig
System File Checker Utility (Scan Immediately)——- sfc /scannow
System File Checker Utility (Scan Once At Next Boot)——- sfc /scanonce
System File Checker Utility (Scan On Every Boot)——- sfc /scanboot
System File Checker Utility (Return to Default Setting)——- sfc /revert
System File Checker Utility (Purge File Cache)——- sfc /purgecache
System File Checker Utility (Set Cache Size to size x)——- sfc /cachesize=x
System Properties——- sysdm.cpl
Task Manager——- taskmgr
Telnet Client——- telnet
User Account Management——- nusrmgr.cpl
Utility Manager——- utilman
Windows Firewall——- firewall.cpl
Windows Magnifier——- magnify
Windows Management Infrastructure——- wmimgmt.msc

The colours you actually see on your screen can vary depending on your monitor

graphics cards settings, lighting and more, yet most people use the same default

Windows colour profile. And that means a digital photo that looks perfect on your

screen might appear very poor on everybody else.

Fortunately, Windows 7 now provides a Display Colour Calibration Wizard that helps you properly set up your brightness, contrast and colour settings, and a ClearType tuner to ensure your text is crisp and sharp.

Click Start, type DCCW and press Return to give it a try (Windows 7)

For many people, the ribbon interface used in Microsoft Office 2007 is a great

step forward, while others find it overwhelming. If you fall into the latter category,

you’ll be happy to know that the ribbon can be temporarily hidden to provide you

with a larger working area.

It’s also worth noting that the ribbon can quite easily be hidden by accident, so if this has happened, use this tip to help find it again. Click the down arrow icon at the end of the Quick Access Toolbar and tick or untick the Minimize the Ribbon option.

This menu can also be accessed by right-clicking anywhere on the ribbon.

Make a custom shortcut that mutes and unmutes your PC’s sound using Nircmd,

from www.nirsoft.net/utils/nircmd.html Download and extract the contents

to My Documents. Right-click the desktop and choose New Shortcut.

Enter this location: "C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\My Documents\nircmd\nircmd.exe" mutesysvolume 2. Ensure that the path points

to where you extracted the Nircmd.exe file. Name the shortcut mute_ unmute’. Double-click it to mute your speakers and do so again to turn them back on.

       Its really easy. have fun and share with your friend.

Nobody can create a FOLDER anywhere on the computer

which can be named as "CON".
This is something pretty cool…and unbelievable. ..

At Microsoft the whole Team, couldn’t

answer why this happened!
TRY IT NOW ,IT WILL NOT CREATE " CON " FOLDER

Trick 2

For those of you using Windows, do the following:

1.) Open an empty notepad file
2.) Type "Bush hid the facts" (without the quotes)
3.) Save it as whatever you want.
4.) Close it, and re-open it.

is it just a really weird bug? Confused?

Trick 3

This is something pretty cool and neat…and
unbelievable. .. At Microsoft the whole Team,
including Bill Gates, couldn’t answer why this
happened!

It was discovered by a Brazilian. Try it out
yourself…

Open Microsoft Word and type

=rand (200, 99)

And then press ENTER and see what happens

Windows 7 does seem to start faster than Vista, said iolo, with its time-to-the-desktop measured as around 40 seconds. But iolo measured startup as the point where the computer is “fully usable,” with a low load on the processor.

Microsoft has said it’s dedicated significant resources to making Windows 7 boot, and resume from sleep and hibernation, faster than Vista, which has been panned since 2007 for starting slowly.

Other tests, however, have echoed iolo, and showed that in some cases Windows 7 does boot slower than Vista. PC World, a sister publication to Computerworld , for example, benchmarked the new operating system as starting about 10% slower than Vista when 32-bit versions of the two were compared, although it was 14% faster on 64-bit.

iolo also said its tests indicated that Windows 7’s startup times, like Vista’s, degrade over time. After several “commonly-used” applications have been installed on a new Windows 7 box, for instance, its boot time — again, as measured by the company — slows to two minutes, 34 seconds, an increase of 64%.

Windows Key + Spacebar Aero desktop peek, just like that small rectangle at the right bottom corner next to the time display.

Windows Key + Home = minimize/maximize all inactive windows

Windows Key + P = projector options

Windows Key + E = Windows Explorer is launched.

Windows Key + R = Run Command is launched.

Windows Key + F = Search (which is there in previous Windows versions too)

Windows Key + X = Mobility Center

Windows Key + T = Cycle Super Taskbar Items

Windows Key + S = OneNote Screen Clipping Tool [requires OneNote]

Windows Key + M = Minimize All Windows

Windows Key + D = Show/Hide Desktop

Windows Key + L = Lock Computer (It is there from the earlier versions as well)

Windows Key + U = Ease of Access

Windows Key + G = show desktop gadgets

Windows Key + Any number [0,1, 2, .., 9] = open the corresponding taskbar pinned program

Windows Key+ Left Arrow = toggle docking to half the screen starting by the left half

Windows Key + Right Arrow = toggle docking to half the screen starting by the right half

Windows Key + Shift + Left Arrow = move the window one monitor left in a multi-monitor display

Windows Key + Shift + Right Arrow = move the window one monitor right in a multi-monitor display

Windows Key + Up Arrow = maximize the active window

Windows Key + Down Arrow = minimize the active window

Shift + Click = a pinned taskbar icon to run a new instance of the program

Windows Key + Tab = Aero [press Tab to cycle between Windows]

Windows Key + # = Quicklaunch

Windows Key + = = Magnifier

In a short amount of time you will master this keystroke saving you the need to take your hands off the keyboard and scrolling with the mouse, making your computing experience all the more easier.

Three new “critical” security patches affecting Windows will be part of the patch package that will be available on Tuesday, as well as three “important” fixes for other Microsoft products – Publisher, Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server and Virtual PC and Virtual Server. The fixes affect machines running Windows Vista, Windows XP or Windows Server 2003, according to details in the patch advisories.

If your computer is set to automatically receive Microsoft patch updates as recommended, then you should receive the fixes without any intervention on your part.

One of those fixes, for a security vulnerability in Microsoft Video ActiveX Control affecting computers running Windows XP or Windows Server 2003, though, has been awaited for quite a while. It appears that the first reports of the problem date back to early 2008.

Questions raised about first reports

“We’ve gotten some questions from customers about when we got the first report of this vulnerability and how long the investigation has taken relative to the outbreak of attacks against this vulnerability,” wrote Microsoft spokesman Mike Reavey in a Microsoft Security Response Center blog item yesterday.

“Before I go into the details, the key thing I want customers to understand is that this is an issue that was responsibly reported to us and we have been driving in our standard process towards a security update,” Reavey wrote. “While in the middle of that process, attackers found this same vulnerability and began attacks against it. We were far enough in the process that we could provide information that customers can use to protect themselves in the interim while we complete that investigation and deliver a security update that you can deploy broadly with confidence. ”

Oh yeah, I’m real confident now.

First report received in Spring 2008

What’s interesting here for consumers is that the first report of this ActiveX Control security vulnerability came in during the spring of 2008, according to Microsoft, and it’s just getting around to fix it now. That’s more than a whole year.

And Reavey even admits that in his blog post.

The reason the vulnerability is being fixed is because it can enable an attacker to take over a victim’s computer over the Internet as the logged-on user if the computer’s owner browses a malicious Web site.

Yet despite that danger, more than a year has passed for a fix.

Hmmmmm, another Tuesday, another group of Microsoft patches.

So is that Google Chrome OS ready to try out yet?

Source: pcworld

Put an encrypt/decrypt option on your context menu

If you frequently encrypt files or folders to protect your privacy, you can access this function via the right-click menu by changing a Registry key. Editing the Registry is always risky, so back it up first by creating a restore point. To do so, press the Windows key, type systempropertiesprotection.exe, and press Enter. Click Create, give the restore point a name, and choose Create again.

With your Registry backup in place, press the Windows key, type regedit, and press enter. Navigate to and select this key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced

Right-click in the right pane, choose New > DWORD (32-bit) Value, and name it EncryptionContextMenu. Double-click the new entry, give it a value of 1, and click OK. After you restart your system, you’ll see an Encrypt/Decrypt option when you right-click a file or folder.

Disable DOS-era 8.3 file-name compatibility

Most hard drives on Vista systems are partitioned using NTFS rather than the older FAT32 format. But Vista still supports the old 8.3 file-name convention of DOS and early versions of Windows. This is handy if you still run DOS-era 16-bit programs, but most of us have no need to retain this backward-compatibility. You can speed up your file accesses a bit by disabling this feature.

To do so, open the Registry Editor as described in the previous tip and navigate to and select this key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem

Double-click the key named NtfsDisable8dot3NameCreation, change its value from 0 to 1, and click OK.

Do without last-access file updating

Whenever you open a file on an NTFS partition, it gets a date stamp that’s separate from its “last modified on” date and time. If you can do without this information, you can disable it and open your files a skosh faster.

Start by opening the Registry Editor as described above. Navigate to and select this key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem

Double-click NtfsDisableLastAccessUpdate, change the DWORD value from 0 to 1, and click OK.

Windows Vista Registry Editor

Change this Registry key to disable the last-file-access feature to open files faster.

Access Vista’s report on your start-up and shutdown speeds

Among the interesting performance-measuring tools in Vista is the Event Viewer’s log of your system’s start-up and shutdown performance. To view these reports, press the Windows key, type event, and press Enter. Navigate in the left pane to this entry:

Applications and Service Log\Microsoft\Windows\Diagnostics-Performance

Double-click Operational in the middle pane to view the most recent events. Look for entries numbered from 100 to 199 to indicate start-up items, and ones numbered from 200 to 299 for shutdown items. Click the Details tab below the event log and make sure Friendly View is selected.

Windows Vista Event Viewer

Vista’s Event Viewer records your boot times and other performance information about your start-ups and shutdowns.

You’ll see the boot and shutdown times in milliseconds and other information about your start-ups and shutdowns. Compare the numbers for each system start and shutdown to determine whether your machine’s slowing down. If it is, try paring your list of start-up applications using the tips in this post from last October. And use the tips in this post from March 2008 to put Windows to bed in a jiffy.

Let Vista tell you how it’s doing

A little-known addition to Vista is the System Health Report Generator, which gives you an inside look at how well your PC is running. To access the tool, press the Windows key, type perform info, and press Enter. Click Advanced tools in the left pane and choose Generate a system health report.

About a minute later, you’ll see the test results in various categories. For help deciphering the information and on using other components of the Performance and Reliability Monitor, check out this guide on Microsoft’s TechNet site.

Source: cnet