Command line windows

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...focusing on things useful for sysadmins, makeshift installers batch-scripts, and such.

cmd.exe

Perhaps best known for getting a command line window from Start menu → Run... or Windows-R, then styping cmd.exe

Can also be useful for batch scripts. Then often used with /c, meaning 'close after the specified command is done'

start, start.exe

There is a START command (usable in cmd.exe windows, batch scripts, and such) that is a more flexible way of running things, can for example start without creating a window, start it minimized.

Note that the title argument is required, so if you don't care about a title, specify ""

There are third-party tools that imitate the command, often to avoid having a visible cmd.exe window (e.g. installers, login scripts, CD/USB autorun)

• start.exe

(Note: as with any common tool, there is malware that overwrites them)

rundll32.exe

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regsvr32.exe

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For example, you can unregister the DLLs that do Media thumbnails and previews in windows.