{"id":220,"date":"2017-02-26T19:38:48","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T00:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ericburdo.com\/blog\/?p=220"},"modified":"2017-07-07T07:19:23","modified_gmt":"2017-07-07T11:19:23","slug":"a-magic-trick-with-windows-explorer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ericburdo.com\/blog\/tech-tips\/220\/a-magic-trick-with-windows-explorer\/","title":{"rendered":"A Magic Trick with Windows Explorer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li>Open Windows Explorer (WIN+E is a handy shortcut)<\/li>\n<li>Click into the Address Bar (ALT+D)<\/li>\n<li>Type the name of an application that is in your PATH<\/li>\n<li>Press Enter.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Your application can be anything that is in the PATH.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some examples:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CMD &#8211; Launch a command window.<\/li>\n<li>winword &#8211; Launch Microsoft Word.<\/li>\n<li>powershell &#8211; Launch Powershell.<\/li>\n<li>notepad &#8211; Launch notepad.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are more applications that you can launch. Here is the <a href=\"https:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/coding4fun\/blog\/A-Simple-File-Explorer-Magic-Trick\">article form Channel 9 that goes into more detail<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open Windows Explorer (WIN+E is a handy shortcut) Click into the Address Bar (ALT+D) Type the name of an application that is in your PATH Press Enter. Your application can be anything that is in the PATH. Here are some examples: CMD &#8211; Launch a command window. winword &#8211; Launch Microsoft Word. powershell &#8211; Launch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ericburdo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ericburdo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ericburdo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ericburdo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ericburdo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/ericburdo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":244,"href":"http:\/\/ericburdo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions\/244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ericburdo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ericburdo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ericburdo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}