Starting multiple programs at once

[Blue_Gundam2002]

I use a laptop at school and I don't want any programs to start at startup, but at home I want to be able to open all my programs at one time when my computer starts by clicking on an icon or something. Does anyone know how to do this or if its possible?

[aym]

One option is bat files, create a text file in notepad, with contents like this:

@echo off
start c:\path\to\exe1
start c:\path\to\exe2
start c:\path\to\exe3

and save it with .bat extension.

Double-click it to start all apps at once.

[Blue_Gundam2002]

Originally posted by aym_7 One option is bat files, create a text file in notepad, with contents like this: @echo off start c:\path\to\exe1 start c:\path\to\exe2 start c:\path\to\exe3 and save it with .bat extension. Double-click it to start all apps at once.

Thats what I was thinking, but I couldn't remember what it was called or how to make it.

[Blue_Gundam2002]

I can't seem to get this to work, whenever I click on it I get a messages saying it can't find "c:\programs" for the last 4 programs.

@echo off start c:\em3\emIII.exe start C:\Program Files\mozilla.org\Mozilla\mozilla.exe start C:\Program Files\AIM\aim.exe start C:\Program Files\Folding@Home\winFAH.exe start C:\Program Files\Hotmail Popper\hotpop.exe

[aym]

To solve the problem, use the following syntax for start:

start /d"c:\path\with spaces\to\" name.exe

EDIT:

@echo off
start c:\em3\emIII.exe
start /d"C:\Program Files\mozilla.org\Mozilla\" mozilla.exe
start /d"C:\Program Files\AIM\" aim.exe
start /d"C:\Program Files\Folding@Home\" winFAH.exe
start /d"C:\Program Files\Hotmail Popper\" hotpop.exe

[Blue_Gundam2002]

Thanks it works now

[DriftWolf]

Hey thats cool would you mind giving those directions in detail for a XP system.

[Blue_Gundam2002]

Originally posted by DriftWolf Hey thats cool would you mind giving those directions in detail for a XP system.

Just open up notepad and put in this

@echo off start /d"c:\path\with spaces\to\" name.exe

The save as, and change "save as type" to all files, then for the name just put something like whatever.bat

Then for every other program you want to use just add another line of this

start /d"c:\path\with spaces\to\" name.exe