The help file begins with:
| NirCmd v1.52
Copyright (c) 2003 - 2004 Nir Sofer |
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, mute or adjust sound volume, 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: |
| 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" |
| 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" |
| 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 |
NOTE: THe help file contains much more.
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