When I type 'http://www.google.com at the Windows Run: prompt it launches my default browser.
But when I do it at the CMD or Commnad prompt it does not. I assume that there is some form of RunDLL command being issued but I can't find out what.
Does anyone have any insight?
I think it's the equivalent of using START.
If you try
START http://www.google.com
from the command line (or a batch file), it should work fine.
What Jon said appears to be correct. I tested it with mailto:[email protected]. Interestingly if you wish to make run work like the default behaviour of cmd, you can do the following:
Start -> Run -> cmd /c http://www.google.com. Not sure why anyone would ever need to do that though!