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You still use the command prompt
for some tasks. It would be practical
if you could automatically switch to a
particular directory when you call up
the prompt.



With a registry entry, you can
defi ne commands for the command
line, which the system executes when
starting a command prompt window.
This can be compared to running the
‘autoexec.bat’ fi le when starting old DOS
and Windows systems. For this, open the
‘Run’ command in the start menu, enter
‘regedit’ and click ‘OK’.
In the registry editor, navigate
your way to the ‘HKEY_CURRENT_
USER\Software\Microsoft\Command
Processor’ key. Go to ‘Edit | New |
Expandable string value’, enter ‘Autorun’and press enter. The new value type
must now be ‘REG_EXPAND_SZ’. To edit
the new entry, double-click ‘Autorun’. In
the value fi eld, enter the command that
should be automatically executed when
the command prompt starts.
For example:
cd c:\Windows
The above value takes you directly to
the ‘Windows’ directory on starting the
command prompt. Similarly, you can
start up the command prompt at any
other directory of your choice.