MS Windows Articles, Reviews and Videos » account http://windowspalace.com All about Windows. Drivers, reviews, tutorials and videos Fri, 16 May 2008 18:20:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3 en Create A Batch File To Open Multiple Programs At Once http://windowspalace.com/contributors/create-a-batch-file-to-open-multiple-programs-at-once.html http://windowspalace.com/contributors/create-a-batch-file-to-open-multiple-programs-at-once.html#comments Fri, 09 May 2008 11:58:23 +0000 Jason http://www.pctipsbox.com/?p=1569 Ever have the need to open more than one program or at the same time?

Say it’s the beginning of the month and time to pay those dreaded bills. You know you need , and or Explorer open. Instead of opening them up one by one, you can easily create a batch file that will open all three programs at once.

And while your at it, why not have open the spreadsheet file you use for tracking your budget and the open to your Bank’s home page. Here’s how to do it…

First let’s take a look at a batch file I created that will just open , and :

NOTE: Examples and file paths are from Vista. XP paths will probably be different for some programs as well as for MS ( 2007 is used in the example).

start /d C:\\\calc.exe
start /d “C:\\ ” .exe
start /d “C:\\ \Office12″ .EXE

Pretty simple.

The above , start tells to open a separate window to run the specified program.

The /d switch tells start the path of the program. For starting and , notice that the paths are in quotes, which is needed when there is a space in the file path.

Now it’s great that all three programs open, but since it’s time to pay your bills, you need to have open that budget spreadsheet and open to your Bank home page so you can log on and access you checking .

Here’s how the commands look in the batch file to do this:

start /d C:\\\ calc.exe
start /d “C:\\ ” .exe https://www.bankofamerica.com
start /d C:\\spreadsheets budget.xls

To open Bank Of America home page with , just add the URL to end of the as shown above using https://www.bankofamerica.com.

To open the spreadsheet, budget.xls you don’t need to first open . budget.xls can be opened directly using the start , as long as the extension or file type is associated to the program.

If you need to open more than one URL, say to , just add the URL like this (make sure you use a space in between URL’s):

start /d “C:\\ ” .exe https://www.bankofamerica.com www..com

Now you’re probably saying “that’s great, but how do I create a batch file?”.

That’s the easy part.

* Just open up or your favorite text editor.
* Copy the commands from above and modify them to use which ever program or files you want open. Make sure when you copy file and folder paths that have spaces, to use quotes.
* Then save the file with any name and a .bat extension (make sure it’s not saved using .txt as the file type extension)

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User Control can be annoying, but it’s an extra layer of protection that protects your from viruses, hackers, and poorly written .

lets you know when someone or something is trying to change a setting or / on your . It also removes administrative rights from making it harmless to critical files and services.

Before , settings could be changed and could be installed/uninstalled without you knowing. running under an with admin rights also had full admin rights which gave it full access to critical files and services.

You must be logged in as a user with admin rights to turn off.

1. Click the Start orb and select .
2. Click Classic View on the left side of the .
3. Open .
4. Click Turn User Control on or off.
5. Uncheck Use User Control and then click OK.
6. your .

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This is great for when you install Vista on a computer for a friend or family member but you want to leave the set up to them.

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