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NirCmd v2.81
Copyright (c) 2003 - 2016 Nir Sofer |
See Also
- NK2Edit - Edit, merge and fix the AutoComplete files (.NK2) of Microsoft Outlook.
Description
NirCmd is a small command-line utility that allows you to do some useful tasks without displaying any user interface. By running NirCmd with simple command-line option, you can write and delete values and keys in the Registry, write values into INI file, dial to your internet account or connect to a VPN network, restart windows or shut down the computer, create shortcut to a file, change the created/modified date of a file, change your display settings, turn off your monitor, open the door of your CD-ROM drive, and more...
Examples of what you can do with NirCmd
Open the door of J: CD-ROM drive |
nircmd.exe cdrom open j: |
Close the door of Y: CD-ROM drive |
nircmd.exe cdrom close y: |
Speaks the text currently in the clipboard (For Windows XP/Vista/7/8). |
speak text ~$clipboard$ |
Speaks the text stored inside speak.txt into speak.wav filename (For Windows XP/Vista/7/8). |
speak file "c:\temp\speak.txt" 0 100 "c:\temp\speak.wav" 48kHz16BitStereo |
Increase the system volume by 2000 units (out of 65535) |
nircmd.exe changesysvolume 2000 |
Decrease the system volume by 5000 units (out of 65535) |
nircmd.exe changesysvolume -5000 |
Set the volume to the highest value |
nircmd.exe setsysvolume 65535 |
Mute the system volume |
nircmd.exe mutesysvolume 1 |
Unmute the system volume |
nircmd.exe mutesysvolume 0 |
Switch the system volume between the mute and normal state. |
nircmd.exe mutesysvolume 2 |
Create a shortcut on your desktop that switch the system volume between the mute and normal state. |
nircmd.exe cmdshortcut "~$folder.desktop$" "Switch Volume" mutesysvolume 2 |
Turn off the monitor |
nircmd.exe monitor off |
Start the default screen saver |
nircmd.exe screensaver |
Put your computer in 'standby' mode |
nircmd.exe standby |
log off the current user |
nircmd.exe exitwin logoff |
Ask if you want to reboot, and if you answer 'Yes', reboot the computer. |
nircmd.exe qboxcom "Do you want to reboot ?" "question" exitwin reboot |
Turn off your computer |
nircmd.exe exitwin poweroff |
Turn off all computers specified in computers.txt ! |
multiremote copy "c:\temp\computers.txt" exitwin poweroff force |
Dial to "My Internet" connection |
nircmd.exe rasdial "My Internet" |
Disconnect the "My Internet" connection |
nircmd.exe rashangup "My Internet" |
Make your Internet Explorer windows 75% transparent ! (192 / 256) |
nircmd.exe win trans ititle "internet explorer" 192 |
Minimize all your Internet Explorer windows |
nircmd.exe win min class "IEFrame" |
Close all your Internet Explorer windows |
nircmd.exe win close class "IEFrame" |
Close all your Explorer windows (My Computer, folders, and so on) |
nircmd.exe win close class "CabinetWClass" |
Hide all your Internet Explorer windows |
nircmd.exe win hide class "IEFrame" |
Show all your Internet Explorer windows (after you made them hidden with previous example) |
nircmd.exe win show class "IEFrame" |
Center all top-level windows |
nircmd.exe win center alltop |
Remove the title bar of My Computer window. |
nircmd.exe win -style title "my computer" 0x00C00000 |
Return the title bar of My Computer window that we removed in the previous example. |
nircmd.exe win +style title "my computer" 0x00C00000 |
Set the My Computer window to right-to-left order (For hebrew and arabic languages) |
nircmd win +exstyle title "my computer" 0x00400000 |
Set all child windows of My Computer window to right-to-left order (For hebrew and arabic languages) |
nircmd win child title "my computer" +exstyle all 0x00400000 |
Create a shortcut on your desktop that closes all your Internet Explorer windows |
nircmd.exe cmdshortcut " "~$folder.desktop$ "Close All IE" win close class "IEFrame" |
Create a shortcut on your desktop that hides all your Internet Explorer windows |
nircmd.exe cmdshortcut " "~$folder.desktop$ "Hide All IE" win hide class "IEFrame" |
Create a shortcut on your desktop that shows back all your Internet Explorer windows |
nircmd.exe cmdshortcut " "~$folder.desktop$ "Show All IE" win show class "IEFrame" |
Set the Windows Calculator as top-most window (above all other windows) |
nircmd.exe win settopmost title "Calculator" 1 |
Set the Windows Calculator back to regular window (non top-most window) |
nircmd.exe win settopmost title "Calculator" 0 |
Create a shortcut to Windows calculator under Start Menu->Programs->Calculators |
nircmd.exe shortcut "f:\winnt\system32\calc.exe" "~$folder.programs$\Calculators" "Windows Calculator" |
Hide the desktop window |
nircmd.exe win hide class progman |
Show the desktop window (After hiding it in previous example) |
nircmd.exe win show class progman |
Hide the start button on the system tray |
nircmd.exe win child class "Shell_TrayWnd" hide class "button" |
Show the start button on the system tray |
nircmd.exe win child class "Shell_TrayWnd" show class "button" |
Hide the clock on the system tray |
nircmd.exe win child class "Shell_TrayWnd" hide class "TrayClockWClass" |
Show the clock on the system tray |
nircmd.exe win child class "Shell_TrayWnd" show class "TrayClockWClass" |
Kill (terminate) all instance of Internet Explorer processes |
nircmd.exe killprocess iexplore.exe |
Create a shortcut on your desktop that opens the door of K: CDROM drive when you run it. |
nircmd.exe cmdshortcut "~$folder.desktop$" "Open CDROM" cdrom open k: |
Create a shortcut to NirSoft Web site on your desktop |
nircmd.exe urlshortcut "http://www.nirsoft.net" "~$folder.desktop$" "NirSoft" |
Add NirSoft Web site to your Favorities under Links folder. |
nircmd.exe urlshortcut "http://www.nirsoft.net" "~$folder.favorites$\Links" "NirSoft" |
Create a shortcut to NirSoft Web site on the desktop of all computers listed in computers.txt |
nircmd.exe multiremote copy "c:\temp\computers.txt" urlshortcut "http://www.nirsoft.net" "~$folder.common_desktop$" "NirSoft" |
Set the display mode to 800x600x24bit colors |
nircmd.exe setdisplay 800 600 24 |
Create a shortcut on the desktop that set the display mode to 800x600x24bit colors |
nircmd.exe cmdshortcut "~$folder.desktop$" "800x600x24" setdisplay 800 600 24 |
Copy all shortcuts on your desktop to another folder (f:\temp\desktop). |
nircmd.exe execmd copy "~$folder.desktop$\*.lnk" f:\temp\desktop |
Restart your Apache server (under Windows NT/2000/XP/2003) |
nircmd.exe service restart apache |
Create a shortcut on your desktop that restarts the Apache server |
nircmd.exe cmdshortcut "~$folder.desktop$" "Restart Apache" service restart apache |
Restart your IIS |
nircmd.exe service restart w3svc |
Restart MySql |
nircmd.exe service restart MySql |
Open the desired Registry key/value in RegEdit |
nircmd.exe regedit "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion" "CommonFilesDir" |
Open the Registry key that you copied to the clipboard in RegEdit. |
nircmd regedit "~$clipboard$" |
Disable the screen saver |
nircmd.exe regsetval sz "HKCU\control panel\desktop" "ScreenSaveActive" 0 |
Enable the screen saver |
nircmd.exe regsetval sz "HKCU\control panel\desktop" "ScreenSaveActive" 1 |
Change the date/time of the specified filename (creation time and modified time) |
nircmd.exe setfiletime "c:\temp\myfile.txt" "24-06-2003 17:57:11" "22-11-2005 10:21:56" |
Copy your desktop folder path to the clipboard |
nircmd.exe clipboard set ~$folder.desktop$ |
Copy your start menu folder path to the clipboard |
nircmd.exe clipboard set ~$folder.start_menu$ |
Copy the content of info1.txt (simple text file) to the clipboard |
nircmd.exe clipboard readfile "c:\My Files\info1.txt" |
Add the text content of clipboard to info1.txt |
nircmd.exe clipboard addfile "c:\My Files\info1.txt" |
Clear the clipboard |
nircmd.exe clipboard clear |
Create all folders specified in "c:\temp\folders.txt". The folder path names are separated by CRLF characters. |
nircmd.exe paramsfile "c:\temp\folders.txt" "" "" execmd md ~$fparam.1$ |
Install the specified .NET assembly in the global assembly cache (like gacutil) |
nircmd.exe gac install "C:\temp\MyAssembly\bin\MyAssembly.dll" |
Empty the recycle bin in all drives. |
nircmd.exe emptybin |
Answer 'Yes' to a standard Windows message-box. |
nircmd.exe dlg "" "" click yes |
Wait 2 seconds, and then save the current screen to shot.png |
nircmd.exe cmdwait 2000 savescreenshot "f:\temp\shot.png" |
Save 10 screenshots in a loop, and wait 60 seconds between the screenshot save calls. The filenames of the screenshot will contain the time and date of the saved screenshot. |
nircmd.exe loop 10 60000 savescreenshot c:\temp\scr~$currdate.MM_dd_yyyy$-~$currtime.HH_mm_ss$.png |
Wait until Firefox is closed, and then say "Firefox was closed" |
nircmd.exe waitprocess firefox.exe speak text "Firefox was closed" |
Run RegEdit with SYSTEM user (On Windows 7/8/Vista/2008), which allows you to view all hidden system Registry keys |
nircmd.exe elevatecmd runassystem c:\windows\regedit.exe |
System Requirements
This utility can work in all versions of Windows operating system: Windows 9x/ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 10.
Versions History
Date |
Version |
Description |
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23/05/2016 |
2.81 |
- Fixed bug: NirCmd failed to execute the cmdwait, loop and a few other commands after qboxcom and qboxcomtop commands.
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30/01/2016 |
2.80 |
- Fixed bug: clipboard readfile failed to read the last character of Ascii file.
- Added writeufile and addufile to clipboard command, for writing files in Unicode.
- Fixed the restartexplorer command to work properly on Windows 10.
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10/08/2013 |
2.75 |
- Added new commands: moverecyclebin, suspendprocess , resumeprocess.
- Added etitle option to the find parameter of win command.
- 'clipboard readfile' command now reads Unicode files (UTF-8 and UTF-16).
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29/10/2012 |
2.71 |
- Added runassystem command, which allows you to run a process with SYSTEM user (Works on Windows 7/8/Vista/2008)
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12/09/2012 |
2.70 |
- Added new option to speak command: You can now save the entire speach into a .wav file that can be played with any media player (Instead of playing it directly to your sound card).
- Added restartexplorer command, which simply restarts Windows Explorer gracefully.
- Added screensavertimeout command, which allows you to set the screensaver timeout, in seconds.
- Added togglemax, togglemin, togglehide, toggledisable actions to win command.
- Added SystemSounds support for setappvolume, changeappvolume, and muteappvolume commands.
- Fixed issue on Windows 7: 'win close alltopnodesktop' command caused a shutdown dialog-box to appear.
- Fixed the setprimarydisplay to work properly.
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28/06/2011 |
2.65 |
- Added setdefaultsounddevice command (for Windows 7/Vista/2008 only), which allows you to set the default sound device.
- Added setsubunitvolumedb command (for Windows 7/Vista/2008 only), which allows you to set the volume of sound device subunits (Line In, Microphone, and so on)
- Added mutesubunitvolume command (for Windows 7/Vista/2008 only), which allows you to mute/unmute the volume of sound device subunits (Line In, Microphone, and so on)
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21/06/2011 |
2.60 |
- Added mediaplay command for playing audio file (.mp3, .wav, and so on) for the specified number of milliseconds.
- Added changebrightness and setbrightness commands for setting the screen brightness on laptops and netbook computers.
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08/06/2011 |
2.55 |
- On savescreenshot, savescreenshotfull, and savescreenshotwin commands, you can now specify *clipboard* as a filename, in order to save the screenshow into the clipboard
- On savescreenshot command, you can now specify a rectangle to capture as x, y, width, and height instead of capturing the entire screen.
- Fixed savescreenshotfull command to work properly on multiple screen system with negative coordinates.
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27/03/2011 |
2.52 |
- Added 'runas' command, which allows you to run a new process with the specified user name/password.
- Added 'Flash' action to the win command, with allows you to flash the specified window.
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13/03/2011 |
2.51 |
- Added 'focused' option for setappvolume, changeappvolume, and muteappvolume commands, which allow you to easily change the volume of the application that is currently in focus, on Windows 7/Vista/2008.
- Added 'default_record' option for setsysvolume, changesysvolume, setsysvolume2, changesysvolume2, and mutesysvolume commands, which allows you set easily change the volume of default recording device, on Windows 7/Vista/2008.
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24/02/2011 |
2.50 |
- Added 3 new sound volume commands to change or mute application volume on Windows 7/Vista/2008: setappvolume, changeappvolume, muteappvolume
- Added new information command that shows you a message box with all sound devices on your Windows 7/Vista/2008 system: showsounddevices.
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22/02/2011 |
2.48 |
- Fixed the problems with the timeout of the tray balloon in trayballoon command.
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20/01/2011 |
2.47 |
- Fixed bug: The sendkeypress command didn't work properly with Fxx keys (F1, F2, and so on).
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28/11/2010 |
2.46 |
- Added option to locate window by process in win command.
- Added max and min options (Minimized and maximized windows) into exec and exec2 commands.
- Added x64 builds of nircmd.exe and nircmdc.exe
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18/10/2010 |
2.45 |
- Added trayballoon command - displays a tray balloon with your desired text and icon.
- Added sendkeypress command - Alternative to the sendkey command. Allows you to send key press combination in much easier way, for example: sendkeypress ctrl+shift+esc
- Added clonefiletime command to clone the date/time of existing file into one or more files.
- Added setconsolemode command to set the console display mode - window or full screen.
- Added setconsolecolor command to set the foreground and background colors of the console text.
- Added consolewrite command to write text into the console window.
- Added debugwrite for writing text into the debug output.
- Added ~$folder.mydocuments$ variable.
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21/02/2010 |
2.41 |
- Fixed a bug in elevate command: when running a program without parameters, NirCmd sent the elevate command string as a parameter of the program.
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16/02/2010 |
2.40 |
- Added elevate and elevatecmd commands to run and execute commands with administrator rights under Windows 7/Vista/2008.
- Added monitor parameter to setdisplay command, for using it with multiple monitors.
- Added setprimarydisplay command.
- Added folder.programfiles and folder.common_programfiles variables.
- Added async_off, async_on, async_low for monitor command. You can try them if NirCmd.exe remains in memory when you use monitor on/off command.
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26/05/2009 |
2.37 |
- Improved the help .chm file - Now it contains a link to every command.
- Added help command - Automatically opens the reference of the desired command in http://nircmd.nirsoft.net. For example, if you type 'nircmd.exe help speak', the reference page of speak command - http://nircmd.nirsoft.net/speak.html will be opened in your default browser.
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19/05/2009 |
2.36 |
- Fixed bug in script: Sometimes the last line in the script was not executed properly.
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20/04/2009 |
2.35 |
- Added loop command - execute a command multiple times.
- Added currtime and currdate variables.
- waitprocess - Added option to execute a NirCmd command after the process was closed.
- Added rem (or ;) command, just for adding remarks in a script.
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01/04/2009 |
2.30 |
- Added speak command - Speaks the contents of the text or file that you specify, by using the Speech library (SAPI) that comes with Windows XP and Windows Vista.
- Added savescreenshotfull command.
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02/02/2009 |
2.25 |
- New actions for clipboard command - loadclp and saveclp (load/save in Windows .clp format)
- New command: setprocessaffinity
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01/01/2009 |
2.20 |
- New commands: waitprocess, setprocesspriority, qboxtop, qboxcomtop.
- New action in clipboard command: copyimage (Copy image file to the clipboard)
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25/06/2008 |
2.15 |
- New commands: setcursorwin, savescreenshotwin, filldelete
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12/04/2008 |
2.10 |
- New commands: shellcopy, savescreenshot
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09/02/2008 |
2.05 |
- New commands: shellrefresh, convertimage, convertimages
- New option in clipboard command - saveimage
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16/06/2007 |
2.00 |
- All sound volume commands and monitor command now works under Vista.
- New commands: dlg, dlgany, sendkey, sendmouse, returnval
- New actions in win command - dlgclick, dlgsettext, dlgsetfocus
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24/07/2006 |
1.85 |
- New command: cmdshortcutkey
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15/07/2006 |
1.84 |
- Starting from this version, if you don't specify a sound device index in setsysvolume, changesysvolume, setsysvolume2, changesysvolume2 and mutesysvolume commands, the default sound device in control panel ("preferred device") is used.
- New find options in win command: active, foreground, desktop
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20/05/2006 |
1.83 |
- Fixed bug with parameter variables: parameter dialog-box appear more than once.
- New find option in Win command: alltopnodesktop
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18/02/2006 |
1.82 |
- New win actions: postmsg and sendmsg.
- New command: closeprocess
- NirCmd now returns a non-zero value on error.
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19/11/2005 |
1.81 |
- New command: emptybin - Empty the Recycle Bin.
- New optional parameter in setdisplay command: refresh rate.
- rashangup command without parameter - disconnect all active connections.
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24/09/2005 |
1.80 |
- New commands: exec2, cmdwait.
- New options in clipboard command.
- Volume commands (setsysvolume, changesysvolume, setsysvolume2, changesysvolume2, mutesysvolume) now allows you to change the volume of non-default sound card.
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07/07/2005 |
1.70 |
- New win actions: activate, hideshow, +style, -style, +exstyle, -exstyle
- New commands: movecursor, setcursor.
- New command: setfilefoldertime - allows you to change the date/time of folders, under Windows 2000/XP only.
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10/06/2005 |
1.62 |
- New actions in win command: focus, enable, disable
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26/05/2005 |
1.61 |
- new command: sysrefresh - make a general system refresh after modifying your system settings in the Registry.
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07/05/2005 |
1.60 |
- New paramsfile command: Allows you to execute a command multiple times by loading the parameters from a text file.
- New actions in win command: move, center, settext.
- New 'child' action in win command: Allows you to move/hide child windows (For example: the start button in the system tray)
- New clipboard command: Allows you to put a string in the clipboard, and clear the clipboard.
- New gac command: Allows you to install assemblies in Global Assembly Cache.
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28/12/2004 |
1.56 |
- New variable: ~$clipboard$ - paste the text that you copied to the clipboard into the command-line.
- Parameter variables: ~$param.ParamName$ - Display an input window for typing the text that you want insert into the command-line.
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07/12/2004 |
1.55 |
Added RegEdit command. |
18/11/2004 |
1.54 |
- On reg commands (regsetval, regdelval, regdelkey), you can now also use the following abbreviated key name: HKCU for HKEY_CURRENT_USER, HKLM for HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, HKCR for HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, HKU for HKEY_USERS, HKCC for HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG.
- redraw action for win command.
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03/11/2004 |
1.53 |
Fixed 'monitor off' problem in XP SP2. |
09/10/2004 |
1.52 |
rasapi32.dll is now loaded only when using the dial commands (rasdial, rasdialdlg, rashangup). In previous versions, NirCmd was statically linked to rasapi32.dll, and that caused problems in old NT systems. |
29/09/2004 |
1.51 |
Variable names are now enclosed with '$' char instead of '%' char.
I made this change because the '%' char causes problems when running NirCmd from cmd/bat file. using the '%' char for variable names is still supported for backward compatibility. |
22/09/2004 |
1.50 |
- New commands: cmdshortcut, regsvr, mutesysvolume, changesysvolume, changesysvolume2, setsysvolume2.
- New actions in win command: trans, setsize, settopmost, ititle.
- New variables: folder.nircmd, nir.exefile
- nircmdc.exe - console version of NirCmd.
- Changed name - from NirComLime to NirCmd.
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05/05/2004 |
1.40 |
- New commands: wait, setvolume, setsysvolume, execmd, exec.
- New commands for executing NirCmd on remote machines: remote and multiremote.
- Folder and system variables.
- New option in setfiletime command - set the file time to the current time (now parameter)
- New parameter in shortcut command - hot key.
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01/03/2004 |
1.30 |
- New commands: qboxcom, beep, stdbeep, cdrom, urlshortcut, monitor, screensaver, standby, and hibernate.
- Fixed the bug with ~x string sequences.
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08/01/2004 |
1.20 |
- New commands: setdialuplogon, script
- Special string sequences (~q, ~t, ~n and so on) to allow you to embed quotes and new line characters into the parameters of any command.
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19/11/2003 |
1.11 |
New options in shortcut command |
10/10/2003 |
1.10 |
New commands: killprocess, service, memdump, win, lockws. |
09/09/2003 |
1.00 |
First release. |
License
This utility is released as freeware. You are allowed to freely distribute this utility via floppy disk, CD-ROM, Internet, or in any other way, as long as you don't charge anything for this. If you distribute this utility, you must include all files in the distribution package, without any modification !
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