Start++ Commands

Open Visual Studio solution

leddt — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 20:27:21 GMT

For Visual Studio users. Opens a solution by it's name.

Usage : dev MyProject
This would open the MyProject.sln solution in Visual Studio.

Mail

bud — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 16:09:28 GMT

This command startlet will invoke Outlook to create a new email with the recipient already populated in the "To:" field.

Usage: m user@domain

Random Playlists

leddt — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 15:17:57 GMT

Plays songs in random order.

Usage : playr [keywords]

Planned for future versions :

Add the possibility to specify how many tracks you want in the playlist. For this I need the ability to use %>n in Search Startlets

Ripe Search

lordoftheping — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 19:02:05 GMT

Search in the ripe database. IP as parameter for example

Microsoft KB

lordoftheping — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 08:12:03 GMT

Take a KB number as parameter, then display the Microsoft KB directly...

Useful when someone speak about a KB

eventID Search

lordoftheping — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 08:10:39 GMT

Take a windows event ID as parameter, then open the eventid.net web pages with the search result directly

YouTube

CChris — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 05:54:42 GMT

Search Youtube.com for your keywords

Type tube + your keywords

Remote Desktop Multi-Monitor

stevenharman — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 14:23:01 GMT

This startlet will start a new instance of the Remote Desktop Connections client using the /SPAN argument - so the Remote Desktop window will span all available screen space you have (up to 4096 x 2048 pixels). See here for more info on how monitor spanning works.

You can also optionally provide a computer name to remote into. If a computer name is not provided, the standard RDC client startup window is launched.

Usage: remote [machine-name]

World of Warcraft Thottbot.com database query

Fiat — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 16:55:51 GMT

Thottbot.com is the de-facto standard for gathering information on World of Warcraft items, NPC's, quests, etc. This startlet forms a simple query of their database. Order of parameters is significant, but it can parse partial string matches.

Call Skype

Haacked — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 05:24:04 GMT

Call someone on skype from Start++ if you know their username or phone number.

Usage:

call haacked

call +13101231234

Remote Desktop

Haacked — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 05:18:22 GMT

Remote Desktop to the specified machine.

usage:

rd SERVERNAME

blog

Haacked — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 05:14:16 GMT

Launches Windows Live Writer when you want to blog something. It's plenty easy to change for your favorite blog engine.

Hosts File

Haacked — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 05:12:33 GMT

During web development, I often need to edit my hosts file for various reasons. For example, when testing cookies for a domain, but debugging on a local machine, I'll map the domain name to 127.0.0.1.

Usage:

hosts

Start and Stop Services

Haacked — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 05:10:19 GMT

Start and stop windows services by name with elevated privileges.

Example:

start mssqlserver

stop mssqlserver

TechNet Search

Brandon — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 08:38:02 GMT

Startlet to search TechNet

Example: "tech active directory schema"