Today I was looking for a simple and efficient way to add aliases to the Windows
Run dialog box (the one you can open using Win+R
).
![](/post/win-run-aliases/1.png)
Turns out my preferred way to do so is editing the registry, adding a key under
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths
ending with .exe
.
The Default value represents the exe you want to run, you can also add a subkey string value to the key with the name Path to specify the path where you want to run your alias.
![](/post/win-run-aliases/2.png)
You can find more informations in this beautiful MSDN article
I would like to create a script to ease the process and eventually support an export / import feature (maybe also interactive?), but I don’t know, we’ll see..
antipatico >:B