Arlen Holder wrote in
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What Windows freeware adds powerful "phone Susan" & "vipw"
commands? a. Start Run phone susan {enter} == outputs Susan's
phone number b. Start Run vipw {enter} == decrypts an
encrypted password file

This is a common need that everyone can benefit from your
solution.

More detail:

1. Start Run vipw
The goal is that the passwd.txt file is an encrypted plaintext
file containing whatever data you want to put in the cleartext
file, where, for this example, passwd.txt contains passwords that
you wish to keep handy but which you wish to keep encrypted until
you need it.

2. Start Run phone Susan
The goal is that the phone.txt file is a plain text file
containing as many lines as you want which contain the
case-insensitive characters "susan" in them (essentially it's a
"grep -i susan" command).

Note: It's not at all hard to get any command to work in the
"Start Run" box if we simply set up an "App Paths" "exe" key:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\vipw.exe
Where the value of the "vipw.exe" key is, oh, say,
"C:\path\command.bat"

The question is what "command.bat" will do these commonly needed
tasks? A. Decrypt & open a given plain text file (after entering
the password) B. Grep a given plain text file for the given
keywords

What I'm not asking for:
a. Cygwin (because it's too complex)
b. Win10 Bash Shell (same reason as above)
c. Any solution that won't work from a single "Start Run"
command. (i.e., we don't want to pop up a complex GUI like
Veracrypt is)

What Windows freeware adds powerful "phone Susan" & "vipw"
commands? a. Start Run phone susan {enter} == outputs Susan's
phone number b. Start Run vipw {enter} == decrypts an
encrypted password file



For (2), your "command.bat" could look something like:

@echo off
find /i "%1" C:\path_to_my\phone.txt
pause


For (1), your best choice really would be a GUI password manager like
KeePass (https://keepass.info). You could encrypt "password.txt"
with most any freeware compression program and open the encrypted
file with a Start- Run command to READ the passwords inside, but not
to EDIT them: for that, you'd have to extract the text first and re-
encrypt it afterward. That's not convenient or secure.