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Asked: 2026-05-10T21:46:56+00:00

I’m trying to replace the programs that run from my startup directory with a

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I’m trying to replace the programs that run from my startup directory with a batch script. The batch script will simply warn me that the programs are going to run and I can either continue running the script or stop it.

Here’s the script as I have written so far:

@echo off echo You are about to run startup programs! pause   ::load outlook cmd /k 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\OUTLOOK.EXE' /recycle ::load Visual Studio 2008 call 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe'

Both of these commands will load the first program and wait until I close it to load the second. I want the script to load the processes simultaneously. How do I accomplish this?

Edit: When I use the start command it opens up a new shell with the string that I typed in as the title. The edited script looks like this:

start  'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\OUTLOOK.EXE' ::load Visual Studio 2008 start 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe'
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  1. This works:

     @echo off echo You are about to run startup programs! pause   ::load outlook start /b '' 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\OUTLOOK.EXE' /recycle ::load Visual Studio 2008 start /b '' 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe'
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