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). 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.