Handy utilities

Handy utilities
Submitted March 2, 2010 by Dallas
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Some triggers for the commonly used utilities like MSConfig, TaskManager etc.

Each is just two of lines of Autohotkey script (which I've included for anyone who is interested), so no great mystery. Some of these things can be done with simple shortcuts, but not all. Anyway, I find them useful.

Just unzip the file, save the exes to wherever you want and double click each to see what it triggers. Put a shortcut to any you want on your dock and change the icon to suit yourself.

Can also be used with the Win7 taskbar. For example, if you pin the one called RunMyComputer to the taskbar, it will open Windows Explorer in your Drive view (which I prefer) instead of the default Windows Libraries view.

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's AvatarDallas (March 3, 2010):

Yes, it really is just that one line of code. (The second line justs quits the program once the first line runs.)

Open calc is all it does.

Do you have Autohotkey installed? If so, try running the ahk file directly and see if it does the same thing.

's AvatarMaiTriCks (March 2, 2010):

Yeah probably antag, but still I can open ANY other program except this one... (g4y) LOL not ur fault Jazzy

's Avatartheantagonizer (March 2, 2010):

Mai, were you executing the program from your temporary winrar directory? You should extract programs to run properly. -_-

The script is literally two lines of code. Open calc. thats it

's AvatarMaiTriCks (March 2, 2010):

Helpful but truly strange... And my WinRAR crashed when I attempted to execute "OpenCalculator.exe".

Program Error. Consider Revising.