AUTOEXEC.BAT - Revision history

Dan Tobias at 22:55, 15 August 2017

2017-08-15T22:55:39Z

Jsummers: Category:Booting

2017-08-15T14:51:27Z

Category:Booting

Jsummers: Category:MS-DOS

2017-03-29T16:26:23Z

Category:MS-DOS

Jsummers: Category:File formats with a distinctive filename

2016-05-04T16:33:25Z

Category:File formats with a distinctive filename

Dan Tobias at 17:48, 3 April 2016

2016-04-03T17:48:34Z

Dan Tobias at 17:45, 3 April 2016

2016-04-03T17:45:35Z

Dan Tobias: Created page with "{{FormatInfo | name = AUTOEXEC.BAT | formattype = electronic | subcat = Configuration files | subcat2 = DOS config..."

2016-04-03T17:45:00Z

Created page with "{{FormatInfo | name = AUTOEXEC.BAT | formattype = electronic | subcat = Configuration files | subcat2 = DOS config..."

New page

{{FormatInfo
| name = AUTOEXEC.BAT
| formattype = electronic
| subcat = Configuration files
| subcat2 = DOS configuration files
| subcat3 =
| subcat4 =
| subcat5 =
| thiscat =
| extensions = {{ext|bat}}
| mimetypes =
| locfdd =
| fourccs =
| pronom =
| type code =
| uniform type =
| conforms to =
| released = 1981
| image =
| caption =
}}

'''AUTOEXEC.BAT''' is a special [[batch file]] that was present in the root directory of a boot disk for various versions of PC/MS-DOS and Windows, containing commands that were excecuted upon bootup in order to complete the setup of the system before the user was placed into the command prompt. If you wished the computer to automatically boot into some particular program you would place the command invoking it at the end of this file where it would run after all the other setup was complete.

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	'''AUTOEXEC.BAT''' is a special [[batch file]] that was present in the root directory of a boot disk for various versions of PC/MS-DOS and Windows, containing commands that were excecuted upon bootup in order to complete the setup of the system before the user was placed into the command prompt. If you wished the computer to automatically boot into some particular program you would place the command invoking it at the end of this file where it would run after all the other setup was complete. Modern Windows versions have other means of running things on launch.		'''AUTOEXEC.BAT''' is a special [[batch file]] that was present in the root directory of a boot disk for various versions of PC/MS-DOS and Windows, containing commands that were excecuted upon bootup in order to complete the setup of the system before the user was placed into the command prompt. If you wished the computer to automatically boot into some particular program you would place the command invoking it at the end of this file where it would run after all the other setup was complete. Modern Windows versions have other means of running things on launch.
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		+	Some Windows versions also had a [[AUTOEXEC.DOS]] file, designed to run when running the system in standalone DOS mode without Windows; on seeing the proper function key pressed on bootup, the system would rename this to AUTOEXEC.BAT and the original one to AUTOEXEC.WIN, so that the DOS-based autoexec file was used instead of the Windows-based one.

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 | thiscat                =
-| extensions             = {{ext|bat}}
+| extensions             = {{ext|bat}}, {{ext|dos}}, {{ext|win}}
 | mimetypes              =
 | locfdd                 =

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-'''AUTOEXEC.BAT''' is a special [[batch file]] that was present in the root directory of a boot disk for various versions of PC/MS-DOS and Windows, containing commands that were excecuted upon bootup in order to complete the setup of the system before the user was placed into the command prompt. If you wished the computer to automatically boot into some particular program you would place the command invoking it at the end of this file where it would run after all the other setup was complete.
+'''AUTOEXEC.BAT''' is a special [[batch file]] that was present in the root directory of a boot disk for various versions of PC/MS-DOS and Windows, containing commands that were excecuted upon bootup in order to complete the setup of the system before the user was placed into the command prompt. If you wished the computer to automatically boot into some particular program you would place the command invoking it at the end of this file where it would run after all the other setup was complete. Modern Windows versions have other means of running things on launch.
 [[Category:Microsoft]]