Comments on: NirCmd – Free command line tool for Windows XP and Vista

By: kate

kate — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:36:55 +0000

Hi, does anyone know how to utilize Nircmd to make a certain action occur at startup? I know the prompt but am unsure as how to use the program to apply the prompt for startup.

Specifically, setting my screen resolution at startup to my laptop’s maximum resolution as it continually reverts to the lowest resolution upon startup.

Any help would be greatly appreciated…thanks!

By: Dennis

Dennis — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:30:01 +0000

Thanks for this, I’ve created my first command line script to open my CD drive when I click on a shortcut on the desktop. The coolest command is the screenshot, which you can have loop also continuously.

By: Carter

Carter — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 22:46:50 +0000

Another option now is to use Windows PowerShell. It’s the upgraded command prompt and you can use it to do all kinds of advanced tasks in Windows.

By: AK

AK — Fri, 08 May 2009 12:27:16 +0000

To turn off monitor reliably with hot key or shortcut

Use the following delay; say 1 sec ( time has to be in millisecond in the instruction i.e 1000 in the instruction)

\nircmd.exe cmdwait 1000 monitor off

does not detect mouse movement during click, turns off monitor reliably, Works ok even with a value of 20 msec

By: Automatically turn off or restart a Windows PC

Automatically turn off or restart a Windows PC — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 10:45:57 +0000

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By: rohit

rohit — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 20:58:54 +0000

yea……the monitor used to get on again …but creating a bat file worked…

i mean ….just open notepad……….type “nircmd.exe monitor off” without quotes and save it as ‘desired_name.bat”
dats it..it worked for me

By: Alain

Alain — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 16:14:31 +0000

i just found a workaround : a .bat file with twice the command “nircmd monitor off”.
The screen blinks once, but in then turns off.

By: Alain

Alain — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:20:33 +0000

Tried monitor off on Vista. It turns off monitor, but immediately the montiror turns on again… without me doing anything!!!
did i miss something ?
I’d like to turn it off, and turn on when i hit th keyborad or move the mouse.

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 01:54:39 +0000

Do you know if the source is available? I’d like to know how they tell the system to turn off, dim the monitor, etc.

By: Madhur Kapoor

Madhur Kapoor — Thu, 08 May 2008 22:32:37 +0000

This is awesome. It can help us increase our efficiency

By: akishore

akishore — Thu, 08 May 2008 01:32:08 +0000

Keith,

It’s definitely for someone like you then! I’m just starting to get into the whole Putty thing too!

By: Keith Dsouza

Keith Dsouza — Wed, 07 May 2008 19:39:27 +0000

Definitely looks like a good software to have, being a software engineer I use putty and cmd almost half my day. This would definitely be a good addition for me .