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Author Topic: replace cmd  (Read 9707 times)

alexp

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replace cmd
« on: October 25, 2005, 05:14 AM »
I use console as a frontend for cmd if I need to do any work in it.

What I'm looking for is if anyone knows of any way of catching any cmd windows which try to open (like if I run a batch file or a program opens one up) and open console up instead.

I'm not sure if this is the right scetion for this but I'll post it here anyway.
Why is it that writers write, but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce, and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So, one moose, 2 meese? One index, two indices? Is cheese the plural of choose?

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Re: replace cmd
« Reply #1 on: October 26, 2005, 07:12 PM »
how about renaming console.exe to cmd.exe?
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Re: replace cmd
« Reply #2 on: October 26, 2005, 08:47 PM »
Good suggestion (from jpfx). To do this under both Win2k and WinXP is a bit of a bugger, though. For info on how to do it, check out the faq at the metapad site: www.liquidninja.com.

Here's how to do it for XP: http://www.liquidnin...metapad/faq.html#Q28
Here's Win2k: http://www.liquidnin...metapad/faq.html#Q17

You can substitute cmd.exe for notepad.exe and follow the successfully follow the instructions (I think ;)).

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Re: replace cmd
« Reply #3 on: October 26, 2005, 10:01 PM »
Here's what I did, I renamed Cmd.exe to cmd.bak and Console.exe to cmd.exe. Then I set the ComSpec environment variable to C:\Windows\System32\cmd.bak. After that, I coped the files the Console.exe requires to C:\Windows\System32.

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Re: replace cmd
« Reply #4 on: October 27, 2005, 10:09 AM »
Here's what I did, I renamed Cmd.exe to cmd.bak and Console.exe to cmd.exe. Then I set the ComSpec environment variable to C:\Windows\System32\cmd.bak. After that, I coped the files the Console.exe requires to C:\Windows\System32.
Have you actually replaced cmd with console? What do you mean by setting the ComSpec environment?
Why is it that writers write, but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce, and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So, one moose, 2 meese? One index, two indices? Is cheese the plural of choose?

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Re: replace cmd
« Reply #5 on: October 27, 2005, 11:49 AM »
Checkout Control Panel > System > Advanced Tab > Environment Variables (button)  and look in the list of system variables at the bottom.

(THis is for windows XP but there are similar things in other windows versions but may have different tab/button names)

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Re: replace cmd
« Reply #6 on: October 27, 2005, 12:13 PM »
Checkout Control Panel > System > Advanced Tab > Environment Variables (button)  and look in the list of system variables at the bottom.

(THis is for windows XP but there are similar things in other windows versions but may have different tab/button names)
Ah cool, that makes more sense now.
Why is it that writers write, but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce, and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So, one moose, 2 meese? One index, two indices? Is cheese the plural of choose?

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Re: replace cmd
« Reply #7 on: October 27, 2005, 11:56 PM »
Wow - nice, I really do learn something new every day!

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Re: replace cmd
« Reply #8 on: November 11, 2005, 10:22 AM »
Console is really a nice tool ! Thanks for pointing it to me.
However, I wasn't able to successfuly replace cmd.exe by console.exe, Windows Security kept begging me for the installation CD, and when I ran console (by running the executable renamed as cmd.exe), it cycled endlessly, creating window after window of nice looking consoles ...
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Re: replace cmd
« Reply #9 on: June 01, 2007, 03:29 PM »
this is a very interesting program that i was about to post when a forum search returned this thread.. as it has already been mentioned, i'll just add a screenshot.. :)

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