![]() ![]() I like the Permissions Monitor because it enables me to see WHO has permissions to do WHAT at a glance. Recommended: Solarwinds’ Permissions Analyzer – Free Active Directory Tool Actually the default of hiding the ‘Run’ command, seems like a pre-empting Group Policies, since in XP administrators use this method to prevent ordinary users seeing the Run box. Perhaps future generations of users will not be aware of the existence of Run. Windows 7’s new behaviour of hiding the Run command is clearly ‘by design’. Also Control Printers opens up that folder. Tip Control: You can also type the word Control in the Run dialog box. Result explorer opens showing the files of the user who is logged on. To rephrase in the Run dialog box type just a full stop. This should provide a shortcut to your own profile. Tip Dot: Type a dot, period (.) in the run box. Note this requires WinKey +R and not Ctrl. Then, one day, I remembered the old trick of pressing Windows Key and R, which launched the Run box, from there I typed CMD. In truth, what I did at first was to find the cmd executable and Pin to Start Menu. Scroll down, until you find the Run command and tick the box. Instructions: Click on the flashy new Start Orb, Properties, Start Menu and Customize. If you really want to be a Luddite and display the obsolete Run command, then the solution is to add Run to the Start Menu. A case of learn a tool in one area and then apply that knowledge to another interface. You will also find Quick Search (a sister of Start Search), in the new Windows Explorer. What I particularly like is the way the interface displays all the matching programs as I typed just the first few letters. See screenshot opposite.Īs you configure Windows 7 so you will come to love the way that the new Start Search subtly combines the best of the old XP ‘Run box’, with the improved Windows 7 Search. All that we need is to do is type the name of the executable, e.g. What I should have done was embrace the new way and simply adopt Windows 7’s Search programs and files dialog box. When I failed to find the Windows 7 Run command, the underlying cause was Guy being a Luddite, and trying do something the old way. An Even Better Solution – Run as Administrator.Problem ‘The requested operation requires elevation’.This page will explain what’s happened to XP’s run command, and better still, how you can embrace the new ‘Search’ dialog box. ![]()
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