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Last night I found a great batch file that allowed you open two apps at once. However, I lost the info I had. Now I can't find it. Can someone help me? Thanks!

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by mike jones

Click Start and then Run and type command and enter.

This should bring up a dos prompt similar to

c:>

type at the prompt

c:>notepad test.bat

This will open notepad and ask you if you want to create a new file. Select Yes.

The command to start a program from the dos prompt is funnily enough call start, so you could enter in this file

start explorer
start calc

Save the file and from My Computer or Explorer, navigate to the test.bat file you just created and double click. This file should open Explorer and then the Calculator.

Of course, you could rename the test.bat anything and store in anywhere on your computer.

The reason you should try and create the file from the dos prompt is that if you try and createa new document straight from notepad it will name the file test.bat.txt which will not run.

Hope this helps

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