Windows Command Line File Location.

[Gene K]

Can someone please reveal to me the location of the file which
contains the list of all command lines plus a brief help file for each
within XP Prof Edition. Somewhere it is there [used to have a shortcut on
Desktop] but I cannot find it.. Would appreciate any help [My eyesight plus
the rest of me is no longer age 25 or even close to it].

 

[Dave Patrick]

Create a shortcut on the desktop with a "Target" value of;
%systemroot%\hh.exe Ms-its:%systemroot%\help\ntcmds.chm::/ntcmds.htm

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:
| Can someone please reveal to me the location of the file which
| contains the list of all command lines plus a brief help file for each
| within XP Prof Edition. Somewhere it is there [used to have a shortcut on
| Desktop] but I cannot find it.. Would appreciate any help [My eyesight
plus
| the rest of me is no longer age 25 or even close to it].
|
| --
| Gene K
|
|

 

[Gene K]

Dave,
Shortcut is now there. Thank you so much
Gene K

 

[Dave Patrick]

You're welcome.

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:
| Dave,
| Shortcut is now there. Thank you so much
| Gene K

 

[Stan Brown]

Create a shortcut on the desktop with a "Target" value of;
%systemroot%\hh.exe Ms-its:%systemroot%\help\ntcmds.chm::/ntcmds.htm

That's quite slick. How do you know the magic .htm name of a
particular page? I have one or two others I'd like to create
shortcuts to, but I don't know how to figure out the sub-names.

 

[Dave Patrick]

Search for *.chm in the
%systemroot%\Help
folder.

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:
| That's quite slick. How do you know the magic .htm name of a
| particular page? I have one or two others I'd like to create
| shortcuts to, but I don't know how to figure out the sub-names.
|
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| Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
| http://OakRoadSystems.com/
| "I feel a wave of morning sickness coming on, and I want to
| be standing on your mother's grave when it hits."

 

[Stan Brown]

That's quite slick. How do you know the magic .htm name of a
particular page? I have one or two others I'd like to create
shortcuts to, but I don't know how to figure out the sub-names.

I don't know if this is the best answer to my question, but it's
_an_ answer: navigate in Microsoft's on-line help, such as

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/.../all/proddocs/en-us/ntcmds_shelloverview.mspx

The file name at the end (with .mspx changed to .htm) appears to
match the item in the Win XP help file. This shortcut:

%systemroot%\hh.exe Ms-its:%systemroot%\help\ntcmds.chm::/ntcmds_shelloverview.htm

does indeed take me to Windows Help's "Command Shell Overview"
topic, which lists the predefined environment variables.

But still I wonder if there's a more "official" way to set up these
shortcuts.

 

[Stan Brown]

Search for *.chm in the
%systemroot%\Help
folder.

That's the easy part. How do I know the name of the suffix to
put afterward?

 

[Dave Patrick]

Which one?

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:
| That's the easy part. How do I know the name of the suffix to
| put afterward?
|
| --
| Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
| http://OakRoadSystems.com/
| "I feel a wave of morning sickness coming on, and I want to
| be standing on your mother's grave when it hits."

 

[Stan Brown]

That's the easy part. How do I know the name of the suffix to
put afterward?

Given any topic in Help and Support Center, how can I discover the
shortcut command to start it directly, without hitting Win+F1 and
navigating to that particular topic?

You've already given the shortcut for a particular topic; my
question is how to do it for any desired topic.

 

[Dave Patrick]

Doesn't work for all of them.

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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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:
| Given any topic in Help and Support Center, how can I discover the
| shortcut command to start it directly, without hitting Win+F1 and
| navigating to that particular topic?
|
| You've already given the shortcut for a particular topic; my
| question is how to do it for any desired topic.
|
| --
| Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
| http://OakRoadSystems.com/
| "I feel a wave of morning sickness coming on, and I want to
| be standing on your mother's grave when it hits."