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at November 15, 2013 03:04 by tedg


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[Assume the console is to be started by clicking a shortcut to cmd.exe]

1. Right click the shortcut, and select Properties
2. On the Command Prompt Properties dialog, select the Shortcut tab.
3. On the Shortcut tab, locate a field labed Target:. add " /u /k path-to-bat " after "...cmd.exe", where path-to-bat here should be replaced by the path to the batch file to be automatically executed.

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A tip to automatically run a batch file when start a Windows Command Prompt (aka DOS window)

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How to make a Windows Command Prompt (aka DOS window) automatically run a batch file at start?

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