{"id":16106,"date":"2019-01-03T16:10:25","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T21:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=16106"},"modified":"2019-01-03T16:10:25","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T21:10:25","slug":"windows-10-commands-just-for-the-geek-in-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/windows-10-commands-just-for-the-geek-in-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 10 Commands Just For the Geek In You"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Windows 10 Commands Just For the Geek In You<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Windows Run Dialog is still useful tool even in Windows 10 where it has largely been supplanted by taskbar search. But some of these more &#8220;geeky&#8221; commands have to be run from a Windows run box&#8230; some but not all.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Let&#8217;s open a Run dialog (or Run box as we call it):<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Right-click on the Windows 10 start button and click &#8220;Run&#8221;.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Or press Windows key + R<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Now that we have that out of the way, let&#8217;s do some geeky stuff<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Open the C: Drive\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">1. Open a run box<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">2. Type a backward slash &#8211;\u00a0 (that would be this: \\ ) in the run box<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">3. Press Enter<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2019\/run-c.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight Windows 10 Tips\" width=\"567\" height=\"341\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><strong><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Open the Users folder<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">1. Open a run box<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">2. Type two dots in the run box <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">3. Press Enter<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2019\/run-users.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight Windows 10 Tips\" width=\"567\" height=\"341\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Check your PC for performance issues<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">1. Open a run box<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">2. Type RESMON in the run box<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">3. Press Enter<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2019\/run-resmon.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight Windows 10 Tips\" width=\"567\" height=\"341\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">(Hey, you&#8217;re right eagle eye; you can also type this in taskbar search and run it)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2019\/run-resmon1.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight Windows 10 Tips\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Search directly from a Run box<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">1. Open a run box<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">2. Type CHROME &#8220;?Search&#8221; in the run box &#8211; replacing the word Search with whatever your searching for<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">3. Press Enter<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">You can used your favorite browser instead of Chrome. Type Firefox instead of Chrome to use Firefox; type IEXPLORE to use Internet Explorer; type Microsoft-Edge to use Microsoft Edge.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2019\/run-search1.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight Windows 10 Tips\" width=\"567\" height=\"341\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2019\/run-search2.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight Windows 10 Tips\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2019\/run-search3.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight Windows 10 Tips\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">We&#8217;re not sure how useful these are, but maybe you can dazzle your friends, confound your enemies, or find your way home from the Land of Oz.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windows 10 Commands Just For the Geek In You The Windows Run Dialog is still useful tool even in Windows 10 where it has largely been supplanted by taskbar search. But some of these more &#8220;geeky&#8221; commands have to be run from a Windows run box&#8230; some but not all. Let&#8217;s open a Run dialog (or Run box\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/windows-10-commands-just-for-the-geek-in-you\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1796,2888,2889,1700,1719],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16106"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16107,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16106\/revisions\/16107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}