Shortcut to Device Manager

Thanks Pete! Didn't know. Works in the quick launch folder too.

 

Thanks for the tip Pete!

I also used it to create a shortcut to gpedit.msc (Group Policy)...kewl!

 

If you do a search on your PC for *.msc, you will find that most (maybe all) of the files returned will open some app when you run them. On my PC I found the following and every one I tried would work even though I have no clue what several of them do.

UDDI.msc for instance. I could look it up but it's almost more fun trying to imagine.

admgmt.msc
azman.msc
certmgr.msc
certsrv.msc
certtmpl.msc
ciadv.msc
compmgmt.msc
devmgmt.msc
dfrg.msc
dfsgui.msc
dhcpmgmt.msc
diskmgmt.msc
dnsmgmt.msc
domain.msc
dsa.msc
dssite.msc
eventvwr.msc
fsmgmt.msc
gpedit.msc
ipaddrmgmt.msc
lusrmgr.msc
ntmsmgr.msc
ntmsoprq.msc
perfmon.msc
pkmgmt.msc
rsadmin.msc
rsop.msc
schmmgmt.msc
secpol.msc
services.msc
tapimgmt.msc
tsmmc.msc
uddi.msc
winsmgmt.msc
wmimgmt.msc

 

Interesting, the differences you will find between Home and Pro.

certmgr.msc
ciadv.msc
comexp.msc
compmgmt.msc
devmgmt.msc
dfrg.msc
diskmgmt.msc
eventvwr.msc
fsmgmt.msc
lusrmgr.msc
mscorcfg.msc
ntmsmgr.msc
ntmsoprq.msc
perfmon.msc
services.msc
wmimgmt.msc

 

So, when are ya gonna go Pro, Dave?

Johanna

 

Dang - I read up a little on UDDI (page 15 of the PDF is where it starts) and now I'm really confused.

Dave - quite a few of the .msc files from my system have to do with domain management and would be worthless on XP-home since it cannot play on a domain.

Others like gpedit.msc are unfortunate omissions from XP-home and maybe if a bunch of us (rather than just me being real loud) fussed at them, they might add it in at some point. I'd love to see that and also love to see the restriction to simple file management removed. Make that the default maybe but give the option to use real file management too.

 

When I get all my eggs in one basket and re-arrange my hard-drive.