Batch files

[Kenshin]

How to create a autoexec in xp ?
Is it can open any file or program by autoexec if the computer start ?
Helps pls....

[Will.Spencer]

Windows XP supports an AUTOEXEC.BATfile.

Read Startup Program Loading: Where do things load from? How do you stop them? for an insanely exhaustive description of startup processes under Microsoft Windows.

[eeeboy]

First Q is : What is AUTOEXEC.BAT ? I have seen this file many times in Windows. I guessed its a batch file to auto doing jobs at startups. Please make it confirm.

Then Please tell me , How I can effecttively use these batch files. I have just used them in very small purposes like a batch to check connectivity with gateway by pinging it with -t option.

I want to use it more effecttively.

Thanx in Advance.

[Will.Spencer]

Originally Posted by eeeboy

First Q is : What is AUTOEXEC.BAT ? I have seen this file many times in Windows. I guessed its a batch file to auto doing jobs at startups.

Exactly.

Originally Posted by eeeboy

How I can effecttively use these batch files. I have just used them in very small purposes like a batch to check connectivity with gateway by pinging it with -t option.

I want to use it more effecttively.

Batch files are a good way to save time and keystrokes if you have a series of commands which you find yourself using over and over again. That's really all they do.

For more information, read Using Batch Files.

[Vyoma]

Going on a bit of tangent (due to nostalgia)

AUTOEXEC.BAT is a relic from the days of DOS. After the bootstrap calls the COMMAND.COM the AUTOEXEC.BAT gets called. It is like any other batch file, but you could instruct some basic setups that you want to do every time you switch on the PC.

MicroSoft kept this handy even when they shifted to Windows. Even when Windows has its own method for invoking tasks at start up, it can still be used. (I am not sure in Vista, what the case is).