You can prevent or stop Command Prompt from closing immediately after opening or executing a batch file in Windows 11/10 in the following three ways: By using the Pause command. By using the cmd /k ...

If you wish to elevate and always run a Batch file as an administrator in Windows 11/10, follow the procedure laid down in this post. You can run a Batch file as Administrator without a prompt. You ...

In this Daily Drill Down, I’ll show you how to create batch files to help automate tasks. There are many uses for batch files, even in the world of Windows 2000. Any task that can be performed from a ...

The Path variable holds the names of folders that are searched if the file being executed is not in the default folder at the command prompt. For example, if all the batch files are in C:\BATCH, and c ...

One of the other problems that I ran into when trying to make my DOS prompt behave more like my Unix systems was how to invoke my carefully crafted macros every time I opened a new DOS command window.

If you need a computer on your network to automatically perform a file copy as soon as Windows loads -- such as to back up a particular file to your company's server -- the simplest method is to ...

Hi all,<BR><BR>I am trying to run a sql script inside a .bat file. <BR><BR>If I do this manually:<BR><BR>sqlplus user/pass@dbname<BR>@<script.sql><BR><BR>How do I automate this? Basically, I want to ...