Volevo farvi notare un gran bel programmino.
Si chiama nircmd e serve per eseguire qualsiasi operazione da prompt.
E' utilissimo per i frontend nei settaggi di pre e post launch. Si può cambiare la risoluzione video, chiudere applicazioni ecc...
E' compatibile con tutte le versioni windows!
Questo è il link per scaricarlo:
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/nircmd.zip
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/nircmd.html
Il file va copiato nella directory di windows. Se lo avviate da un'altra directory vi chiederà se può spostare il file
Questa è la lista delle funzioni ....
che dire... indispensabile 
Open the door of J: CD-ROM drive
Close the door of Y: CD-ROM drive
Speaks the text currently in the clipboard (For Windows XP/Vista/7/8).
Speaks the text stored inside speak.txt into speak.wav filename (For Windows XP/Vista/7/8).
Increase the system volume by 2000 units (out of 65535)
Decrease the system volume by 5000 units (out of 65535)
Set the volume to the highest value
Mute the system volume
Unmute the system volume
Switch the system volume between the mute and normal state.
Create a shortcut on your desktop that switch the system volume between the mute and normal state.
Turn off the monitor
Start the default screen saver
Put your computer in 'standby' mode
log off the current user
Ask if you want to reboot, and if you answer 'Yes', reboot the computer.
Turn off your computer
Turn off all computers specified in computers.txt !
Dial to "My Internet" connection
Disconnect the "My Internet" connection
Make your Internet Explorer windows 75% transparent ! (192 / 256)
Minimize all your Internet Explorer windows
Close all your Internet Explorer windows
Close all your Explorer windows (My Computer, folders, and so on)
Hide all your Internet Explorer windows
Show all your Internet Explorer windows (after you made them hidden with previous example)
Center all top-level windows
Remove the title bar of My Computer window.
Return the title bar of My Computer window that we removed in the previous example.
Set the My Computer window to right-to-left order (For hebrew and arabic languages)
Set all child windows of My Computer window to right-to-left order (For hebrew and arabic languages)
Create a shortcut on your desktop that closes all your Internet Explorer windows
Create a shortcut on your desktop that hides all your Internet Explorer windows
Create a shortcut on your desktop that shows back all your Internet Explorer windows
Set the Windows Calculator as top-most window (above all other windows)
Set the Windows Calculator back to regular window (non top-most window)
Create a shortcut to Windows calculator under Start Menu->Programs->Calculators
Hide the desktop window
Show the desktop window (After hiding it in previous example)
Hide the start button on the system tray
Show the start button on the system tray
Hide the clock on the system tray
Show the clock on the system tray
Kill (terminate) all instance of Internet Explorer processes
Create a shortcut on your desktop that opens the door of K: CDROM drive when you run it.
Create a shortcut to NirSoft Web site on your desktop
Add NirSoft Web site to your Favorities under Links folder.
Create a shortcut to NirSoft Web site on the desktop of all computers listed in computers.txt
Set the display mode to 800x600x24bit colors
Create a shortcut on the desktop that set the display mode to 800x600x24bit colors
Copy all shortcuts on your desktop to another folder (f:\temp\desktop).
Restart your Apache server (under Windows NT/2000/XP/2003)
Create a shortcut on your desktop that restarts the Apache server
Restart your IIS
Restart MySql
Open the desired Registry key/value in RegEdit
Open the Registry key that you copied to the clipboard in RegEdit.
Disable the screen saver
Enable the screen saver
Change the date/time of the specified filename (creation time and modified time)
Copy your desktop folder path to the clipboard
Copy your start menu folder path to the clipboard
Copy the content of info1.txt (simple text file) to the clipboard
Add the text content of clipboard to info1.txt
Clear the clipboard
Create all folders specified in "c:\temp\folders.txt". The folder path names are separated by CRLF characters.
Install the specified .NET assembly in the global assembly cache (like gacutil)
Empty the recycle bin in all drives.
Answer 'Yes' to a standard Windows message-box.
Wait 2 seconds, and then save the current screen to shot.png
Save 10 screenshots in a loop, and wait 60 seconds between the screenshot save calls. The filenames of the screenshot will contain the time and date of the saved screenshot.
Wait until Firefox is closed, and then say "Firefox was closed"
Run RegEdit with SYSTEM user (On Windows 7/8/Vista/2008), which allows you to view all hidden system Registry keys
