Create shortcuts to common Windows tasks with Wizmo

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Create shortcuts to common Windows tasks with Wizmo

by Brad Linder May 29th 2008

Wizmo is a handy little utility that lets you create desktop shortcuts for a handful of useful Windows system functions. Here's how it works. You download the tiny (40kb) Wizmo.exe file to your computer. then right click on Wizmo to create a shortcut. Add a modifier to your shortcut for the task you want to perform. Then when you click on your shortcut, you can perform that action.

For example, say you want to create a desktop shortcut that you can hit to put your PC in standby. Your shortcut would look something like "C:\wizmo.exe" -standby"

Here are some of the functions you can access with Wizmo:

Bring up a blank screen without turning off your monitors
Power off your monitor
Standby, hibernate, logoff, reboot, or exit Windows
Open or close a CD-ROM drive
Mute your system or change the volume to a specified level

You can get a full list of available commands by clicking on the main Wizmo.exe file.

[via Lifehacker]

Tags: shortcuts, wizmo

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Josh said 9:02PM on 5-29-2008

a very useful too indeed. i assume youre mentioning it since it was recently updates with wifi commands. before that it wasnt updated since 2002 :P

Josh said 9:02PM on 5-29-2008

tool*

mrblewett said 5:04PM on 5-30-2008

I see glorious possibilities of using this with launchy!

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