Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Tab Complete in Windows

Another one of those things that I can never remember off the top of my head so find myself constantly looking it up whenever I get access to a new machine.

I figure it may as well be my own site that I get the info from :-)

To switch on 'Tab Complete' in Windows command line change the following registry keys to '09':
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor\CompletionChar
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor\PathCompletionChar
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6 comments:

  1. Noons27 June 2007 at 03:34

    or at the command line, type:
    cmd /?
    and read the help info, the second and third screens have this information as well. At least with XP Pro they do.
    ;-)

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  2. Rob Baillie27 June 2007 at 07:33

    Brilliant!

    I had no idea.

    Cheers Noons

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  3. Anonymous27 June 2007 at 15:33

    TweakUI from microsoft would have the graphical user interface for this.

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  4. John Chen27 June 2007 at 16:19

    This Microsoft feature was introduce by DOSKey in MS-DOS 4.0 (I believe). It was after Norton Utilities introduce such feature in their version 5.0 2 years earlier.

    This feature was handy, but the slow floppy disk respond stop many users from using it.

    I was using a lot of disk cache utilities at that time, and manage to by pass unnecessary disk reading by Norton Utilities.

    Anyway, I don't know there is an registry setting either. Nice discovery, or research.

    - John Sing-Cheong CHEN, DBA, The Pythian Group, Ottawa, Canada

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  5. Andrew Beacock12 July 2007 at 21:28

    TweakUI is definitely the way to go, that along with many other 'hidden' fields!

    http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

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  6. Rob Baillie15 July 2007 at 20:00

    Andy.

    Very cool. Cheers.

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