Once upon a time i used linux and I felt in love with the command line in there. I loved that i can absolutely run every program from there just typing it’s name. And of course you can do the same in windows with command prompt. I’ve done this so many years for now that its like second part of my life. The best thing is, it saves me from the desktop madness “now where did i put that shortcut”.
So I decided to write or i think it’s better to say screenshot a tutorial of the process how to get yourself this system up and running. Besides you can look cool near your script-kiddie buddies.
There are 7 easy steps to get your command line to execute all the programs you would like.
One:
Click on my computer – > properties or go into my computer and click inside the right mouse button somewhere – if you are stupid and cant do this extremely hard step then take a deep breath and try again.
Two:
Locate the Advanced tab under the window which popped up and click on the Environment Variables button.
Three:
Two lists with crazy stuff inside it pop up. Select the second list and locate “Path” and click edit.
Four:
Under the Variable Value editbox add a new value where you are going to store shortcut files for future to be cool. I’ve chosen a folder D:\links for this purpose because it’s easy to access for me personally, you can choose something different. Just be sure to add semicolon there in the beginning of your entry. “;D:\links” if you don’t add the semicolon it wont end the last line and you can screw something up.
Five:
If you haven’t already then create a folder in the right path which is going to store your shortcut files of executables you wanna be able to run from command line. Remember I’ve chosen “D:\Links” for my path.
Six:
Paste your favorite application shortcut in the folder. I haven’t tried names which have spaces in them, i usually rename the shortcuts to into something more memorable and also to save my time in the typing progress..
Seven:
Press Win + R or go Start -> Run and type the shortcut name you just created. You also can do this from Command Line if you’d like to be super cool.
Thats it, you can now call yourself a power user.