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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Windows UI makes it easy to manage your PC, especially with the new Settings app replacing the Control Panel. However, terminal commands still exist in Windows, and once you start using them, you ...

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.

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 ...