After reading part 1, you will know how to run applications via the run tool. Unfortunately, applications need to be properly registered under Windows to be recognised by run (I am actually not too sure what the requirements for this are, and some applications don’t do this as part of their installation). Luckily, there is a way to bypass this issue. To make run recognise any application, all you need to do is add its directory to the system variable ‘path’.
This is accomplished by navigating to your system properties (right-click ‘my computer’ -> properties) -> click on the advanced tab ->environment variables -> edit the system variable ‘path’. You should already have a path variable to which you can add additional directories (use a ‘;’ character to separate each entry).
If for any reason there is no path variable already defined you will need to create it using the ‘new’ button. Once you have added additional directories, any applications within these directories will be available through the run tool.
So now you know how to start applications and make them available through run.
2 comments:
I've got a folder C:\Shortcuts where I drop shortcuts to all the applications I commonly start. Then C:\Shortcuts goes in my PATH variable - this keeps PATH from getting cluttered. Shortcut files can include command-line options that would be tedious to remember and type out each time. Also, I can name the shortcuts anything I want, which allows for abbreviations.
Thanks for that, I am definitely using that from now on.
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