CMD: Create Shortcut To Command Line/Dos Programs

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Simple way to create shortcuts to command line programs. You favorite cmd is only one click away.


Command line shortcuts on the desktop? What’s next, dogs and cats living together in harmony?

1. Right click on an empty space on the desktop to open the context menu
2. Select New
3. Select Shortcut with a left-click
4. In the location box type cmd /k plus whatever command you want.

For example, if you want a shortcut to ping tech-recipes, your location box would contain:

cmd /k ping tech-recipes.com

example of command prompt on desktop

5. Select Next

6. Name your shortcut and push Finish

This works on all versions of windows including Windows 7 and Windows 8.

Example of this tutorial on windows 8.

 

18 Comments -


  1. nal said on March 25, 2009

    lol

  2. ben said on April 25, 2009

    this does not work if ur administrator has blocked it (on ur school computer)

  3. polytonality said on May 5, 2009

    Try the pressing the ‘Windows’ and ‘R’ keys at the same time to bring up “Run”; then, type CMD and press ‘Enter’. Might work, depending on user permissions….

  4. Anonymous said on October 16, 2009

    This is exactly what I was looking for. I had been monitoring my ping by doing “ping http://www.example.net -t” in the command box, but when I started doing it almost daily I figured I should find a way to automate it instead of typing every time. (Of course, it’s probably better if you have a good ping app, but this works and it’s easy.)

    Also, the site I was pinging was not example.net. That was just an example.

  5. Anonymous said on January 6, 2010

    Thank you for your shortcut info cmd /k to emulation shell. How can I extend this shortcut to start a dos program such as 123r23.exe ?

  6. Anonymous said on February 19, 2010

    lol just make a new file and type CMD in it then save it as somthing.bat and run it!

  7. Name said on March 8, 2010

    hey im at school theyve blocked cmd is there away to get it up easily without system32 and the likes

  8. Varun said on April 24, 2010

    Thanks for
    I have been looking for this since long…

  9. bow said on May 21, 2010

    please help,about that knowladge….please sent to my email..thnaks

  10. bow said on May 21, 2010

    how,to make shortcut from dos……..

  11. Ravi_mht2005 said on July 15, 2010

    ok this is nice tips
    thanx.

  12. Vikas pal said on December 1, 2010

    thankssssssssssssssssssss

  13. Mathias_pk said on December 2, 2010

    lol, thanks to you i have learned how to make a fake / prank virus :-)
    make the shortcut and type:

    cmd k shutdown -r -f -c “WARNING! your computer has detected a fatal virus and will now restart. All data will be lost after restart.” -t 59

    than change the icon of the shortcut at (right mouse) properties > change icon
    type in the upper text box pifmgr.dll (press enter and it will give you a list of nice icons to chose from)
    than you change the name of the shortcut into something that will fit with the icon and make it look like a simple nice game.

    after that when you will open it, it will give you 59 seconds and then the computer will simply restart. at the other hand, people who don’t know this will read, and think that they have installed a virus..

    if you want to test this to see if it works correctly without having to restart your computer, than you can make another shortcut:

    cmd /k shutdown -a

    this will abort the shutdown after you double click on it. :)

  14. Imtiyaz Shaikh said on April 5, 2011

    Thanks, Its working. :)

  15. azeem said on September 10, 2011

    thhhhhhanks much

  16. jrexz said on September 26, 2011

    thanks a lot!
    just the one that im lookin for

  17. selva said on January 26, 2012

    thank you working fine

  18. Leonard said on February 4, 2012

    Thanks.

 

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