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Windows Productivity – #1

March 13th, 2009 No comments

I’ve been busy lately with research and academia, and so I haven’t had much time to hack up some interesting pieces of code. However, because of my student computing job (where I help people connect to the residential network) I decided to look up the Start>Run command shortcuts to generally useful network troubleshooting tasks, as well as a few others. (Note: These probably only work in NT-based systems: NT, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, etc.)

  • services.msc – Brings up the Services control window. I use this often because I don’t like running unnecessary services like Cisco VPN client, which I use only when I need to connect to certain school servers.
  • ncpa.cpl – Brings up Network Connections. This is probably useful for users who can’t don’t already have shortcuts on their computers for this.
  • appwiz.cpl – Brings up the “Add or Remove Programs” Window. Obviously great for installing and removing software.

Last of all, a tip I mentioned before for taking screenshots of applications/windows with PrintScreen is to press Alt + Printscreen on the selected window. The screenshot as usual is sent to the clipboard as usual. (I learned this trick while working as an intern while writing sample api docs.)

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