cmd /k command

steve108 · 23 Oct 2021

Thanks for the update hukre.

I'll have to try myself when I get back to my PC.

Try3 · 23 Oct 2021

hukre said:

Now I want to put the shortcut on the Taskbar. This is where my problem started. After right-clicking on the
icon, the small window which comes up does not include the choice "Pin to taskbar"

hukre,

Alter the shortcut's Target field.

Right-click on the shortcut, select Properties.

In front of the path to the batch file, type in
explorer.exe {followed by a space}
so it becomes something like
explorer.exe D:\Desktop\SomeBachFile.bat
and click on OK.

Now right-click on the [modified] shortcut again and it will offer the option to Pin to Taskbar

All the best,
Denis

steve108 · 23 Oct 2021

hukre said:

Dear Steve 108'
I very much appreciate your assistance in getting my problem resolved.

I planned to run a batch file from a shortcut so I placed a shortcut on the desktop, and
when I double click on it, the batchfile runs ok.

Now I want to put the shortcut on the Taskbar. This is where my problem started. After right-clicking on the
icon, the small window which comes up does not include the choice "Pin to taskbar" as it does when you
right-click on some of the other shortcuts on the desktop; dragging it onto the taskbar is not accepted.

After looking into this, I found that in order to get it on the taskbar, you have to precede the shortcut target
with cmd /c, to make the target look like: cmd /c "C:\users\batchfiles\testing.bat".
Now when you right click on the desktop icon again, the choice of "Pin to taskbar" is restored.

I since discovered that when you run a batchfile from the shortcut, the black cmd screen pops up but
disappears in less than a second.

When I first noted the problem described in my original question, I used the cmd /c command on a .exe file,
where the black command screen stayed on for about 2 seconds. In the mean time, it turns out that the
cmd /c command was not needed in the shortcut for the .exe file.

Your way worked for me and what I said earlier about creating a shortcut didn't.

hukre · 23 Oct 2021

Thank you Try3 for your detailed input. It works just great. I am just astonished about all those tips like yours, my search on google didn't turn up anything, and I wonder if anything like that is written down in any Windows 10 book or if people find these by trial and error.
hukre

Try3 · 24 Oct 2021

Much of it is trial on error [but guided by reason in many cases].
There's a lot of guidance in TenForumsTutorials - see, for example, Pin File to Taskbar [renaming method] - TenForumsTutorials
There's also a lot of guidance in other TenForums threads - see, for example, Pin anything to taskbar [Edwin renaming method] - TenForums

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Denis

hukre · 24 Oct 2021

Thank you very much Try3 for posting such great information. I will certainly make use of it instead of wasting many hours searching for solutions to my problems on the internet only to find out that some of them are several years old and don't apply to the latest vesrsion of Windows 10 anymore.

hdmi · 26 Oct 2021

The easiest way to make the cmd /c window invisible is to use a VBScript that contains the following code:

Code:

Dim wshShell
Set wshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
wshShell.Run """%windir%\System32\cmd.exe"" /c start ""My window title"" ""C:\users\batchfiles\testing.bat""", 0
Set wshShell = Nothing

You can create a new shortcut that points to this .vbs file.

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...Or if you just want to run the batchfile invisibly:

Code:

Dim wshShell
Set wshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
wshShell.Run """C:\users\batchfiles\testing.bat""", 0
Set wshShell = Nothing