On the start menu there is a 'run' button. I got rid of the menu but am kind of missing the run button. Is there anyway to make a shortcut to it? I have seen the abilities to do other things like shutdown using a shortcut to rundll32. Thanks in advance.
There's a couple of things you can do. You can add the address bar to your taskbar, which gives you the ability to type in just about anything and having it run. If you've typed it before, just select it from the drop down list.
Another option would be to download a stand alone application that duplicates the Run box functionality. One I've found that works pretty good is OverRun from
Gajits. com. You can even change the icon and text message it displays in the dialog window.
Ack...
It would seem I've given some bad advice with OverRun (my appologies to everyone). OverRun claims to be customizable, and I'd been putting it off, but took for granted that the functionality worked. I just tried customizing it, and it doesn't work. Further, in the process of troubleshooting, I noticed that it always appears at the top left of the screen.. very annoying after a while.
I've found a much better alternative called RunPlus. It's not customizable either, but it appears at the bottom left and looks exactly like the real run dialog (except that it doesn't start with the last command that was run in the field and highlighted). Plus, it adds some cool functionality to the context menu.
At any rate, it's available at the
PC Magazine website. I know, I know, you have to register to download, but hey, it's free.
Thanks a lot shapeshifter your help is really appreciated. It was really nice of you to make sure that your advice was solid. Thanks again.
-Khoury
Quote:On the start menu there is a 'run' button. I got rid of the menu but am kind of missing the run button. Is there anyway to make a shortcut to it? I have seen the abilities to do other things like shutdown using a shortcut to rundll32. Thanks in advance.
Not found how to make this using rundll32 but I've wrote small util
OpenRun to open std Run dialog
