It is sometimes difficult to find the short cut to launch system utilities because some are located in All Programs, Control Panel, and other places, but there is a way to make it easier to remember where all the utilities are. The way is to make a short cut on your Windows desktop. Whenever you need to do administrative task like run add/remove program, you can just look for the shortcut on your windows Desktop.
Tutorial for making administrative System Utilities shortcut for Windows.
Msconfig is a program for starting and stopping services and programs from loading in Windows, and also have tools for customizing Windows.
1. Right click your mouse an empty place on your desktop, and pick create short cut from the New menu.
2.copy and paste “msconfig.exe” without the qoutes into the Type the location of the item text box, click next.
type msconfig
3. Type System Configuration when you reach the next screen, and click finish.
Now you do not have to go to Start, run, and type msconfig. But, you still should learn this way of getting to Msconfig since it is useful to know. These commands should all work in Windows Vista, XP. But, I’m not sure about 7. They also work on the Windows Run Box.
Other useful Shortcut commands for making Windows Shortcuts to popular System utilities.
Add and remove programs Wizard
appwiz.cpl
Control Panel
control.exe
Display Monitor Settings for your CRT or LCD
desk.cpl
Add new Hardware Wizard
hdwwiz.cpl
System Information
msinfo32.exe
Power Management
powercfg.cpl
Service configuration
services.msc
Task Manager
taskmgr.exe
Computer Management
compmgmt.msc
Component Services
dcomcnfg.exe
Event Viewer
eventvwr.exe
Performance Monitor
perfmon.msc
Registry Editor
regedit.exe
System Properties
sysdm.cpl
Disk Partition Manager
diskmgmt.msc
Time and Date Settings
timedate.cpl
This is just a short list if you want to make more shortcuts go to C:\WINDOWS\System32 and right click the program, and select Send To>Desktop(create shortcut) from the Right click context menu. I hope this save you some time. Do not delete any files in your System32 folder.