# Nodes to control PC

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/nodes-to-control-pc/11129>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [14 May 2019 17:08 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/nodes-to-control-pc/11129 "2019-05-14T17:08:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Michal666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Michal666](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Michal666)\
**Post date:** [14 May 2019 17:08 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/nodes-to-control-pc/11129/1 "2019-05-14T17:08:56Z")

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Hi,

I am new to node red and I was trying to search some nodes to control PC, for example to start chrome and go to netflix page. Could you please help and answer how to achive this ?

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**Author:** ![TotallyInformation](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/totallyinformation/32/31_2.png) [@TotallyInformation](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/TotallyInformation)\
**Post date:** [15 May 2019 08:14 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/nodes-to-control-pc/11129/2 "2019-05-15T08:14:36Z")

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You can do this from the `exec` node. That issues commands to the operating system. So an exec command of `start chrome` will do that.

You can use the windows `start` command to execute anything that Windows understands. So `start https://discourse.nodered.org/t/nodes-to-control-pc/11129` will open this thread in a new tab in your default browser.

If you need to get more into the Internals of Windows, there are various other things you can do as well though you would probably want to look at what PowerShell and WMI can do for you. You can use those with the exec node too.