title: How do you add Start->Run shortcuts in Windows XP?
body: <p>Does anyone know how you setup new commands to launch an application from the Start->Run box?</p>
  
  <p>ie. you can type "firefox", "winword" or "excel" into the Run box and those applications will open even though they're not in the system path, but others won't. For example, with Firefox, there's no files named firefox.* in any of my system path directories:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Path=C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\Program Files\Subversion\bin;c:\Program Files\Microsoft
  SQL Server\90\Tools\binn\
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>So there must be some way of linking applications with this path to create a shortcut command, maybe in the registry?</p>
  
  <p>For example, I want to be able to launch Google Talk from the Run command, but typing the executable's name "googletalk.exe" doesn't do anything, which makes sense because it's not in the system path, but neither is firefox.exe, and typing "firefox" works.</p>
  
  <p>Does anyone have any ideas?</p>