My Piece of the Inter(.)net » Start Menu http://mypieceoftheinter.net A place for my geekish ramblings or whatever I find interesting. Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:35:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 Ping from the start menu http://mypieceoftheinter.net/archives/343 http://mypieceoftheinter.net/archives/343#comments Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:00:07 +0000 David McGrath http://mypieceoftheinter.net/archives/343 I accidentally stumbled upon a Vista feature today.  It seems that "ping" is a keyword in the Vista start menu, like "control".  So if you type "ping 192.168.1.1" it will open up the command prompt ping that computer three times.
ping 192.168.1.1
command prompt

the only trouble is that the window closes right after the third ping, but you get at least enough information to tell if the remote computer is responding.

You can also type in the Windows Network name of the computer.
 ping david-tablet

And, of course, you can still find "the ping pong song":
ping pong

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