Open the door of J: CD-ROM drive => nircmd.exe cdrom open j:
Close the door of Y: CD-ROM drive => nircmd.exe cdrom close y:
Increase the system volume by 2000 units (out of 65535) => nircmd.exe changesysvolume 2000
Decrease the system volume by 5000 units (out of 65535) => nircmd.exe changesysvolume -5000
Set the volume to the highest value => nircmd.exe setsysvolume 65535
Mute the system volume => nircmd.exe mutesysvolume 1
Unmute the system volume => nircmd.exe mutesysvolume 0
Switch the system volume between the mute and normal state. => nircmd.exe mutesysvolume 2
Create a shortcut on your desktop that switch the system volume between the mute and normal state. => nircmd.exe cmdshortcut "~$folder.desktop$" "Switch Volume" mutesysvolume 2
Turn off the monitor => nircmd.exe monitor off
Start the default screen saver => nircmd.exe screensaver
Put your computer in 'standby' mode => nircmd.exe standby
log off the current user => nircmd.exe exitwin logoff
Ask if you want to reboot, and if you answer 'Yes', reboot the computer. => nircmd.exe qboxcom "Do you want to reboot ?" "question" exitwin reboot
Turn off your computer => nircmd.exe exitwin poweroff
Turn off all computers specified in computers.txt ! => multiremote copy "c:\temp\computers.txt" exitwin poweroff force
Dial to "My Internet" connection => nircmd.exe rasdial "My Internet"
Disconnect the "My Internet" connection => nircmd.exe rashangup "My Internet"
Make your Internet Explorer windows 75% transparent ! (192 / 256) => nircmd.exe win trans ititle "internet explorer" 192
Minimize all your Internet Explorer windows => nircmd.exe win min class "IEFrame"
Close all your Internet Explorer windows => nircmd.exe win close class "IEFrame"
Close all your Explorer windows (My Computer, folders, and so on) => nircmd.exe win close class "CabinetWClass"
Hide all your Internet Explorer windows => nircmd.exe win hide class "IEFrame"
Show all your Internet Explorer windows (after you made them hidden with previous example) => nircmd.exe win show class "IEFrame"
Center all top-level windows => nircmd.exe win center alltop
Remove the title bar of My Computer window. => nircmd.exe win -style title "my computer" 0x00C00000
Return the title bar of My Computer window that we removed in the previous example. => nircmd.exe win +style title "my computer" 0x00C00000
Set the My Computer window to right-to-left order (For hebrew and arabic languages) => nircmd win +exstyle title "my computer" 0x00400000
Set all child windows of My Computer window to right-to-left order (For hebrew and arabic languages) => nircmd win child title "my computer" +exstyle all 0x00400000
Create a shortcut on your desktop that closes all your Internet Explorer windows => nircmd.exe cmdshortcut " "~$folder.desktop$ "Close All IE" win close class "IEFrame"
Create a shortcut on your desktop that hides all your Internet Explorer windows => nircmd.exe cmdshortcut " "~$folder.desktop$ "Hide All IE" win hide class "IEFrame"
Create a shortcut on your desktop that shows back all your Internet Explorer windows => nircmd.exe cmdshortcut " "~$folder.desktop$ "Show All IE" win show class "IEFrame"
Set the Windows Calculator as top-most window (above all other windows) => nircmd.exe win settopmost title "Calculator" 1
Set the Windows Calculator back to regular window (non top-most window) => nircmd.exe win settopmost title "Calculator" 0
Create a shortcut to Windows calculator under Start Menu->Programs->Calculators => nircmd.exe shortcut "f:\winnt\system32\calc.exe" "~$folder.programs$\Calculators" "Windows Calculator"
Hide the desktop window => nircmd.exe win hide class progman
Show the desktop window (After hiding it in previous example) => nircmd.exe win show class progman
Hide the start button on the system tray => nircmd.exe win child class "Shell_TrayWnd" hide class "button"
Show the start button on the system tray => nircmd.exe win child class "Shell_TrayWnd" show class "button"
Hide the clock on the system tray => nircmd.exe win child class "Shell_TrayWnd" hide class "TrayClockWClass"
Show the clock on the system tray => nircmd.exe win child class "Shell_TrayWnd" show class "TrayClockWClass"
Kill (terminate) all instance of Internet Explorer processes => nircmd.exe killprocess iexplore.exe
Create a shortcut on your desktop that opens the door of K: CDROM drive when you run it. => nircmd.exe cmdshortcut "~$folder.desktop$" "Open CDROM" cdrom open k:
Create a shortcut to NirSoft Web site on your desktop => nircmd.exe urlshortcut "http://www.nirsoft.net" "~$folder.desktop$" "NirSoft"
Add NirSoft Web site to your Favorities under Links folder. => nircmd.exe urlshortcut "http://www.nirsoft.net" "~$folder.favorites$\Links" "NirSoft"
Create a shortcut to NirSoft Web site on the desktop of all computers listed in computers.txt => nircmd.exe multiremote copy "c:\temp\computers.txt" urlshortcut "http://www.nirsoft.net" "~$folder.common_desktop$" "NirSoft"
Set the display mode to 800x600x24bit colors => nircmd.exe setdisplay 800 600 24
Create a shortcut on the desktop that set the display mode to 800x600x24bit colors => nircmd.exe cmdshortcut "~$folder.desktop$" "800x600x24" setdisplay 800 600 24
Copy all shortcuts on your desktop to another folder (f:\temp\desktop). => nircmd.exe execmd copy "~$folder.desktop$\*.lnk" f:\temp\desktop
Restart your Apache server (under Windows NT/2000/XP/2003) => nircmd.exe service restart apache
Create a shortcut on your desktop that restarts the Apache server => nircmd.exe cmdshortcut "~$folder.desktop$" "Restart Apache" service restart apache
Restart your IIS => nircmd.exe service restart w3svc
Restart MySql => nircmd.exe service restart MySql
Open the desired Registry key/value in RegEdit => nircmd.exe regedit "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion" "CommonFilesDir"
Open the Registry key that you copied to the clipboard in RegEdit. => nircmd regedit "~$clipboard$"
Disable the screen saver => nircmd.exe regsetval sz "HKCU\control panel\desktop" "ScreenSaveActive" 0
Enable the screen saver => nircmd.exe regsetval sz "HKCU\control panel\desktop" "ScreenSaveActive" 1
Change the date/time of the specified filename (creation time and modified time) => nircmd.exe setfiletime "c:\temp\myfile.txt" "24-06-2003 17:57:11" "22-11-2005 10:21:56"
Copy your desktop folder path to the clipboard => nircmd.exe clipboard set ~$folder.desktop$
Copy your start menu folder path to the clipboard => nircmd.exe clipboard set ~$folder.start_menu$
Copy the content of info1.txt (simple text file) to the clipboard => nircmd.exe clipboard readfile "c:\My Files\info1.txt"
Add the text content of clipboard to info1.txt => nircmd.exe clipboard addfile "c:\My Files\info1.txt"
Clear the clipboard => nircmd.exe clipboard clear
Create all folders specified in "c:\temp\folders.txt". The folder path names are separated by CRLF characters. => nircmd.exe paramsfile "c:\temp\folders.txt" "" "" execmd md ~$fparam.1$
Install the specified .NET assembly in the global assembly cache (like gacutil) => nircmd.exe gac install "C:\temp\MyAssembly\bin\MyAssembly.dll"
Empty the recycle bin in all drives. => nircmd.exe emptybin
Answer 'Yes' to a standard Windows message-box. => nircmd.exe dlg "" "" click yes
Wait 2 seconds, and then save the current screen to shot.png => nircmd.exe cmdwait 2000 savescreenshot "f:\temp\shot.png"