Basic Shell Commands:

All this commands are used on the “run” windows on windows, you can get this by pressing the windows button and r on your keyboard, the commands you have to type are structured like shell:<command> and the description

shell:AccountPictures Account Pictures

shell:AddNewProgramsFolder The "Get Programs" Control panel item

shell:Administrative Tools Administrative Tools

shell:AppData Same as %appdata%, the c:\user\<username>\appdata\roaming folder

shell:Application Shortcuts Opens the folder which stores all Modern apps shortcuts

shell:AppsFolder The virtual folder which stores all installed Modern apps

shell:AppUpdatesFolder The "Installed Updates" Control panel item

shell:Cache IE's cache folder (Temporary Internet Files)

shell:CD Burning Temporary Burn Folder

shell:ChangeRemoveProgramsFolder The "Uninstall a program" Control panel item

shell:Common Administrative Tools The Administrative Tools folder for all users

shell:Common AppData The C:\ProgramData folder (%ProgramData%)

shell:Common Desktop Public Desktop

shell:Common Documents Public Documents

shell:Common Programs All Users Programs, which are part of Start menu. Still used by the Start screen

shell:Common Start Menu All Users Start Menu folder, same as above

shell:Common Startup The Startup folder, used for all users

shell:Common Templates Same as above, but used for new documents templates, e.g. by Microsoft Office

shell:CommonDownloads Public Downloads

shell:CommonMusic Public Music

shell:CommonPictures Public Pictures

shell:CommonRingtones Public Ringtones folder

shell:CommonVideo Public Videos

shell:ConflictFolder The Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Sync Center\Conflicts item

shell:ConnectionsFolder The Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Network Connections item

shell:Contacts Contacts folder (Address book)

shell:ControlPanelFolder Control Panel

shell:Cookies The folder with IE's cookies

shell:CredentialManager C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Credentials

shell:CryptoKeys C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Crypto

shell:CSCFolder This folder is broken in Windows 8/7, provides access to the Offline files item

shell:Desktop Desktop

shell:Device Metadata Store C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\DeviceMetadataStore

shell:DocumentsLibrary Documents Library

shell:Downloads Downloads folder

shell:DpapiKeys C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Protect

shell:Favorites Favorites

shell:Fonts C:\Windows\Fonts

shell:Games The Games Explorer item

shell:GameTasks C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\GameExplorer

shell:History C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\History, IE's browsing history

shell:HomeGroupCurrentUserFolder The Home Group folder for the current user

shell:HomeGroupFolder The Home Group root folder

shell:ImplicitAppShortcuts C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\ImplicitAppShortcuts

shell:InternetFolder This shell command will start Internet Explorer

shell:Libraries Libraries

shell:Links The "Favorites" folder from the Explorer navigation pane.

shell:Local AppData C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local

shell:LocalAppDataLow C:\Users\<username>\AppData\LocalLow