I wanna have some fun with CMD prompt.

[striker0204]

hi fellas,

i know you can do some pretty neat stuff with CMD prompt, and i know my way around it a little bit.

I was kinda looking for some fun/annoying things to do.

for instance, something like, popping open my girl friends cd drive.

just some neato things like that. Any ideas?

[jflan]

At the command prompt, type "Google" without the quotes. (of course)

[striker0204]

your kidding right?

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[Dudeking]

For making people CD drives open and close http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/multimed/htm/_win32_mci_open.asp

I suggest if you have any programing skills make something take control of a pc for a few mins while you open and close there cd drive and pop a few messages up on there screen. You can fool idiots to download anything.

Heres a basic CD open/close project....http://www.codeproject.com/system/eject_cdrom.asp?df=100&forumid=220009&exp=0&select=1815814

[striker0204]

see, i dont have ANY Programming skills.

i checked out that program, and all it is, is a simple popup window... but i still dont know how to target a specific computer!

[Tortanick]

Try this:

Install VLC (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/)

then on command prompt type

<Path to VLC>\vlc <path to movie/music>
e.g. C:\"program files\VLC\VLC.exe" C:\annyoingbeep.mp3

I don't know if that works on windows but on Linux that will open VLC and play the music/movie file. It opens a full player up however, I wonder if Windows has any entirely command line based media players.

[Goku]

Well,you may like this article:-

Command -line reference A-Z (http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/ntcmds.mspx?mfr=true)