Microsoft Windows is the biggest OS that we use in our daily life. Whether we use in our personal life or we use it in business life. Windows has perfect blend to get the job done of every flavor. It doesn’t matter whether you are a developer or an IT Professional or an end-user like sales person, marketing employee, arts & designing student Microsoft has designed Windows in fashion that it works for everyone, any time. The user-friendly deal of Windows makes it easy for everyone to use.
Run is the feature of Windows that enables users to enter a command or a program keyword to open it straightaway without browsing through in ‘Start Menu’ or in ‘Windows Explorer’.
Its fun and fast to play with run commands. To Open Run quickly, shortcut is “Win+R” Windows button + R key. Here few of the ‘run’ commands listed of program and features that we use daily and browse all the time.
| Program Name | Commands |
| Microsoft Office: | |
| PowerPoint | powerpnt |
| Word | winword |
| Excel | excel |
| Access | msaccess |
| OneNote | onenote |
| Publisher | mspub |
| Outlook | outlook |
| Other Daily Applications: | |
| Skype for business | lync |
| Internet Explorer | iexplore |
| Internet Setup Wizard | inetwiz |
| Windows Explorer | explorer |
| MS Paint | mspaint |
| Movie Maker | moviemk |
| Windows Log Off | logoff |
| Windows Media Player | wmplayer |
| Wordpad | write |
| Notepad | notepad |
| Mozilla Firefox | firefox |
| Google Chrome | chrome |
| Windows Shut Down | shutdown |
| Magnifier | magnify |
| Calculator | calc |
| Accessibility, Utilities & Control: | |
| Accessibility Controls | access.cpl |
| Add Hardware Wizard | hdwwiz.cpl |
| Add/Remove Programs | appwiz.cpl |
| Administrative Tools | control admintools |
| Automatic Updates | wuaucpl.cpl |
| Check Disk Utility | chkdsk |
| Clipboard Viewer | clipbrd |
| DOS (Command Prompt) | cmd |
| Computer Management | compmgmt.msc |
| Control Panel | control |
| Date & Time Prop. | timedate.cpl |
| Device Manager | devmgmt.msc |
| Diplay Prop. | desk.cpl |
| Driver Verify Utility | verifier |
| Folder Prop. | folders |
| Fonts | control fonts |
| Fonts Folder | fonts |
| IP Configuration | ipconfig |
| Keyboard Prop. | control keyboard |
| Network Connections | ncpa.cpl |
| On Screen keyboard | osk |
| System Properties | sysdm.cpl |
| System Info | msinfo32 |
| Windows System Security Tools | syskey |
| Windows Version | winver |
| Power Config. | powercfg.cpl |
Keep using these run commands to do your work with a good pace as these commands saves a lot of time, from browsing through start menu or other programs.
