SlickRun Help

Introduction

SlickRun is a powerful but surprisingly complicated little application. It takes time to learn, but we think you'll find it well worth your effort.

So what is a SlickRun MagicWord, you ask? A MagicWord is a "friendly name" for a program. For instance, C:\Program Files\Outlook\Outlook.Exe" might be how you start your mail program from the command line. However, "Mail" is a lot more descriptive, and a lot easier to type. To that end, SlickRun allows you to create MagicWords to programs or document files.

SlickRun loves the Internet

SlickRun can make accessing the Internet more convenient than ever! You can type any web address beginning with http:// or www. in SlickRun to instantly navigate to a web site. For even more convenience, you can create MagicWords to your favorite sites. For instance, to create a link to a web search, add a MagicWord named "go" and set the FILENAME to http://www.google.com To search the web at any time, simply type GO, and your web browser will launch, and go to the specified web address. Adding mail, FTP, or Telnet shortcuts is just as easy.

Sizing and Placing SlickRun

You can make SlickRun wider by grabbing the right-edge and dragging it to the right.

You can move SlickRun by grabbing the left or top border and dragging the Window to where you want it.

If you find you're unable to size or place SlickRun, right-click and uncheck "Lock Size and Position."

You can make the Window taller by choosing a larger font in SETUP.

You can type CORNER to dock SlickRun to the nearest corner of the current monitor.

Context-Menu

Right-click on the Command Bar window to show the following menu:

JOT

The JOT feature allows you to keep short notes. Simply drag and drop text from almost any program (Internet Explorer, Microsoft Word, etc) to SlickRun and the JOT will collect the text. Note: SlickRun automatically saves the content of the JOT.

Type in the box next to Find to start an incremental text search.

Click Undo Changes to throw away any edits you've made to JOT.

Suggestion: Drag and drop order confirmation numbers from Web pages to the JOT and it will remember them for you.

Intrinsic MagicWords

SlickRun offers a number of built-in commands that cannot be removed or configured.

ADD - Add a new MagicWord to SlickRun

CORNER - Move SlickRun to the nearest corner of the current monitor

HELP - Launch this documentation

HIDE - Hides SlickRun in the Task Tray

JOT - Bring up the JOT text pad

QUIT - Close SlickRun

SAVEPOS - Create a new MagicWord which moves SlickRun to the current position (requires version 3.2.2)

SETUP - Bring up the Customize SlickRun dialog

Keyboard Commands

Global Keyboard commands

WINDOWS + Q: Bring up SlickRun

WINDOWS + J: Bring up the Jot (Win+Shift+J on Win10)

The SlickRun hotkey can be configured on the OPTIONS tab of the SETUP screen; changing the Jot key requires manual editing of a config file.
Note: Recent Windows versions "steal" many hotkeys, including SlickRun's. There's registry key you can set to stop Windows from taking SlickRun's default keys.
SlickRun Keyboard commands

Up arrow or F3: Scroll upward (earlier) in command history

Down arrow: Scroll downward (later) in command history

ALT+F: Search for the text typed so far as a prefix in the command history

Shift+ALT+F: Search for the text typed so far *anywhere* in the command history

ALT+M: Show MagicWords list

ALT+S: Search for the text typed so far in the Start Menu

CTRL + /: Replace all \ characters in the SlickRun box with /

CTRL + \: Replace all / characters in the SlickRun box with \

CTRL+TAB: Cycle between SlickRun windows

CTRL + A: Select all Command Bar text

CTRL + C: Copy selected text to clipboard

CTRL+I: Show a File-selection dialog

CTRL + F: Show File Selection dialog box

CTRL + T: Transpose the last two terms in the SlickRun box

CTRL + X: Cut selected text to clipboard

CTRL + V: Paste text from clipboard

TAB or CTRL+RIGHT: Move to the next delimiter (\,/, or space) in the auto-completed text

SHIFT+TAB or CTRL+LEFT: Move to previous delimiter

CTRL+Delete: Delete current item from history

CTRL+Shift+Delete: Delete all history

SlickRun Math Operators

You can type simple math operations in SlickRun:

=12*34
=3^6
=log(1234)
=hex(1234)
=0xabc
Hit enter to calculate the result; the result will be preceded with a leading = to enable chaining more operations.

Configuring Sounds

Type SETUP. Click on the OPTIONS tab. Click the Configure Sounds button. In the control panel applet, click the Sounds tab and scroll the list down to the SlickRun section. Adjust each event's sound to whatever you like.

Free up Windows Hotkeys

Windows Explorer registers a bunch of hotkeys that my utilities default to. You can edit the DisabledHotkeys registry key and restart Windows to free them up.
Either run the following command from your shell:

reg add HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced /v "DisabledHotkeys" /d "JSAQZ"

... or you can import the following registry script:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
"DisabledHotkeys"="JSAQZ"