Run It: Small Utility to Allow Opening Any Program by Typing its Name in RUN Dialog Box in Windows

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Recently we posted a tutorial about opening a program by just typing its name in RUN dialog box in Windows:

How to Open Any Program by Typing its Name in RUN Dialog Box in Windows?

The above tutorial requires Registry editing and if you are not comfortable with it, our reader ".Rain" has created a small utility to do the whole task automatically.

"Run It" is a very small and portable utility which allows you to add any program reference to Windows Registry so that you can launch it by just typing its name in Start menu RUN dialog box. For example, you have installed 3rd party software "Internet Download Manager" and its executable file name is "IDMan.exe". If you try to launch it by just typing "IDMan" in RUN, it'll give error that Windows cannot find the exe. But if you add its reference in Registry using "Run It", you can launch it by simply typing its name in RUN.

How To Use:

1. Either type full path of the program's exe in the text box or click on the yellow folder icon and browse to the EXE file.

2. Once you select the EXE file, click on "RUN it" button. It'll immediately add the reference to Registry.

3. Now you can launch the program by typing its name in RUN dialog box.

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Thanks again to our reader ".Rain" for developing the tool...

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netbox

very handy tool bro VG..
nice and very useful.
SRV

Really appreciable work.Thanks ".Rain"
.Rain

Thanks to VG for the nice article :) .. it was so much useful for me so it's my pleasure to develop that simple tool for you guys .
Kwesi C.

Better than having Launchy running in the background.
azziz

this can be handy if for some reason the run of windows gets corrupted.
Yog Raj

Will this not make registry a bit heavier?
MJSG

Why are you wasting your time with this?
A better one is Launchy
Its freeware and opensource
Just go ahead to Launchy.net and download it
Cause this tool will just fill up your registry with Paths to programs
VG

By default you can't run some 3rd party programs by just typing their names in RUN dialog box. You'll need to enter the full path of EXE file to be able to launch them.

Using "Run It", you can directly run 3rd party programs by just entering their names in RUN dialog box because it adds their path reference in Registry.
Suku

I cant apply any wallaper as desktop background evne oly colours can be apllied

i am using windows 7 (build 7100)

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Suku

I cant apply any wallaper as desktop background evne oly colours can be apllied

i am using windows 7 (build 7100)

what can i do,i am so rid that background