Firing up programs by pressing [Windows R] and typing an alias is a very fast way of launching some applications in the Windows operating system. The selection of available aliases, that is something like [cmd] or [regedit] is rather limited and there is no obvious way of adding new aliases to the list. That’s being [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

The default Windows run dialog is as basic as it can get. The only real advantage is the global keyboard shortcut [Windows R] which opens it. It can then be used to run known applications or Windows services without having to navigate the Start Menu or hard drive. It does offer a Browse button which [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Programs can be loaded at startup of your windows machine, this is called autostart. There are unfortunately numerous places in windows that allow programs to be added to the autostart. The tool Autoruns 8.4 from sysinternals.com lists all known autostart places and programs that use this location to autostart.

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