Windows 10: Help with batch files for a newbie.

Hello and Happy New Year!I have a few files open upon log in to my windows account by using the shell:startup folder. This has been working well but I feel like instead of having to update this folder every week file names change every week due to having the date in their name with the new files, just running one .bat at startup would make this easier for me.Only trouble is the .bat file is here [C:\Users\me\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup] and all of my files I want to open are in the P:\ drive. Having a batch file in the P: drive isn't desirable as I don't wan

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Batch Files Knowledge Base

Don't use batch files very much but one I find useful is for creating a list of files in a directory.
Just copy the text below into Notepad and save as Filelist.bat

dir /a /-p /o:gen >filelist.txt

When you run it from a folder it will create a Filelist.txt file,in the same folder, that lists all the files in that folder.Useful when you are too lazy to type all the files out yourself.

 

need batch file help

I think you can just use the "Call" command in your batch file.
The batch file should delay execution until the call command finishes.

Call myprogram.exe
Call mysecondprogram.exe

Haven't done much batch coding lately *Smile

 

Batch Files Knowledge Base

Very nice and usefull thanks for contributing.