There isn’t anyone on the planet today that doesn’t know the Windows operating system from Microsoft. But while most of us know and use it, very few of us know the hidden switches and handles Windows has to offer.
How is this useful?
- You’re a penetration tester seeking creative ways to break out from the Windows Group Policy sandbox
- You’re a Windows administrator seeking in securing the Windows Group Policy sandbox
- You’re a Windows power user seeking to expand their knowledge
- You’d like to make your life a bit easier with nifty shortcuts
How to
The below switches can be used via Run menu, a new shortcut, explorer address bar, via web browser address bar, via command-line or any other creative way to launch a command
Getting down to business
My Computer explorer.exe /E,::{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}
My Documents explorer.exe /N,::{450D8FBA-AD25-11D0-98A8-0800361B1103}
Recycle Bin explorer.exe /N,::{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}
Network Neighborhood explorer.exe /N,::{208D2C60-3AEA-1069-A2D7-08002B30309D}
Web Browser explorer.exe /N,::{871C5380-42A0-1069-A2EA-08002B30309D}
Control Panel explorer.exe /N,::{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\::{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}
Printers and Faxes explorer.exe /N,::{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\::{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}\::{2227A280-3AEA-1069-A2DE-08002B30309D}
Network Connections or My Network Place explorer.exe /N,::{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\::{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}\::{7007ACC7-3202-11D1-AAD2-00805FC1270E}
Administrative Tools explorer.exe /N,::{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\::{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}\::{D20EA4E1-3957-11d2-A40B-0C5020524153}
Open an FTP location in Explorer view automatically: explorer.exe /secondary,ftp://use:password@192.168.1.1/share
Open a new location: explorer.exe /e “C:\”
Some of the shortcuts were removed from this article since they failed to work under Windows 7.
Cheers q[^_^]p
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