Run a Command Prompt command from Desktop Shortcut

The solutions turned out to be very simple.

1. Open text edit

2. Write the command, save as .bat.

3. Double click the file created and the command automatically starts running in command-prompt.

Create A Shortcut That Opens The Command Prompt & Runs A Command:

Yes! You can create a shortcut to cmd.exe with a command specified after it. Alternatively you could create a batch script, if your goal is just to have a clickable way to run commands.

Steps:

1. Right click on some empty space in Explorer, and in the context menu go to "New/Shortcut".

2. When prompted to enter a location put either:

"C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /k your-command" This will run the command and keep (/k) the command prompt open after.

or

"C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /c your-command" This will run the command and the close (/c) the command prompt.

Notes:

• Tested, and working on Windows 8 - Core X86-64 September 12 2014

• If you want to have more than one command, place an "&" symbol in between them. For example: "C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /k command1 & command2".

Yes, make the shortcut's path

%comspec% /k <command>

where

• %comspec% is the environment variable for cmd.exe's full path, equivalent to C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe on most (if not all) Windows installs
• /k keeps the window open after the command has run, this may be replaced with /c if you want the window to close once the command is finished running
• <command> is the command you wish to run