How to call your favorite program from the command line

This example was shown with opera but it could be applied to any other program also:

;ADD COMMAND LINE FUNCTIONALITY TO CALL OPERA
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\opera.exe]
@="C:\\Program Files\\Opera\\opera.exe"
"Path"="C:\\Program Files\\Opera"
;======================================================END
So just replace the path to your program and the name to it

Now withing a batch file call it so :
start /min cmd /c start /max opera "g site:http://www.unix.org.ua/orelly/perl TOSEARCH"

The first start /min is for concurrency if you would like to have one ...
cmd /c starts new command line processor and exists
start /max is to start the program maximized
Opera - the name of the program
"g site ... " the parameters passed as a single string to the program

Now make the Start - Run dialog remember this particular call if you use it often :

REG ADD "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\RunMRU" /v "p" /d "opera \"g site:http://www.unix.org.ua/orelly/perl TOSEARCH\"\1" /f