Here's the situation, every time I need to do the step below after I boot my computer:
Open the cmd(admin)
copy this cmd into cmd:
C:\Windows\system32\netsh int ipv4 set glob defaultcurhoplimit=65
enter
For now, I hope to double click a file that can directly execute the command above without the step above.
Any method?
You can save it to .bat or .cmd file and run it on double-click.
Create a file with any name and extension .bat I.g. setLimit.bat. I assume you know how to create files.
Open file from above step in file editor, i.g. notepad.exe. Copy and paste line C:\Windows\system32\netsh int ipv4 set glob defaultcurhoplimit=65 into the file and press Ctrl+S to safe it. I hope it makes sense otherwise ask.
Double click on the file to execute the command.
If you need to run it under elevated privilege (i.e. admin) right click on file and choose Run as administrator option in menu.
You need a .bat file to execute the command and a shortcut to have it executed as administrator.
Creating the .bat file is trivial: use you favorite text editor (or notepad), type the command, optionnaly add a line PAUSE if you want to see eventual messages and save it to disk with a .bat extension (say c:\...\sethoplimit.bat)
Creating the shortcut is not much harder: right click on desktop, Create new..., Shortcut, and just select the newly created file
The magic comes now: right click on the newly created shortcut and click Properties, in Shortcut tab, click the Advanced button and select Execute as admin.
That's all. Each time you double click on the shortcut, Windows will start a console with elevated priviledges, eventually open the User Account Control confirmation dialog, and execute the batch file as administrator.
Here I showed you how to create the shortcut directly on the Desktop, but the same process can be used for a shortcut anywhere on a disk folder.
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I was wondering if it was possible to run a selfwritten ruby program just like any other program by double-clicking an icon of some sort.
And if it's possible, how do I do it?
I wrote a little program for a friend but I don't want him to have to use the command line to run it, because that's rather inconvenient (unless there is a way to just double-click and the command line opens the program itself..).
Thanks for your help!
The simple answer that should work for all versions of Windows is to just create a simple batch launcher.
Create a .bat file. I usually just create a new .txt file via "right click > new > text document". Then rename it, highlight everything, including the extension, and rename it to something like run.bat. The .bat part is important. Once you rename it, the icon should change to gears. If you can't overwrite the extension, or Windows is still treating it as a text document, you'll need to either manually save it as a bat, or disable "hide file extensions" in the explorer settings so the extension can be changed.
Edit the bat file, and put into it something like:
#echo off
YOUR RUN COMMAND HERE THAT YOU WOULD NORMALLY TYPE MANUALLY
pause
Paste the command that you would normally run manually where the capital text is. The first line is so it doesn't repeat the commands back, and the pause is so if an error happens, the command prompt doesn't immediately close. This gives you a chance to read the error.
Save it and close it. Now, if you double click on the bat file, your program should run.
Multiple ways
if it's for occasional use and for one script only I would pack it
to a Windows executable with Ocra, then you can double click
the .exe itself or a link to it
same as above but use jRuby and create a .jar file, not for beginners though
the easiest: if you configure Windows to start/run .rb files with your ruby.exe you can double click the .rb files itself and they
will execute, they will have the red Ruby stone icon
if you run a .reg file to enable drap and drop on .rb files you can combine the previous technique to drop files on the script and
they will be the parameters to the script, see my answer here for the reg file
my favorite: copy the .rb to your windows "C:\Users\your_user\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo\"
folder, then you can right click file(s) or folder(s) and select
sendto and select your script, the files or folder will again be the
parameters for your script
you can create a .bat or .cmd file that starts with the path to your ruby.exe and the script as parameter, use rubyw.exe if you
don't want output
I'm just wondering how I can make a shortcut that will open command prompt in the folder it is currently in.
Why I need this.
I save my c program file in the directory Users\PC\Documents\Other\My_Programs\WIP\Project_1\Test\
So I would have to type cd Users\PC\Documents\Other\My_Programs\WIP\Project_1\Test\ every time I want to open the command prompt in that directory.
Is there a shortcut I can make where I can move that shortcut around anywhere (don't need to change the shortcut) and it will open command prompt in the directory it is current in, so I don't need to keep typing cd .....
you can go to the directory and just type start . in the same directory
or you can make a batch file like test.bat and add below line in the same:
cd Users\PC\Documents\Other\My_Programs\WIP\Project_1\Test\
Save it anywhere and whenever you will run that batchfile, it will automatically move PWD to the required directory
Right-click in the open space of your desktop and click New > Shortcut
For the location, type or copy and paste one of the following lines.
%windir%\system32\cmd.exe /k cd Users\PC\Documents\Other\My_Programs\WIP\Project_1\Test\
As commented by aschipfl, you can already do it, (may be OS dependent)!
In Windows Explorer, or I suppose the desktop, just hold down the shift key, right click in a blank area of it and choose Open command window here, (or whatever your locale states).
I think in Windows 10 at least, the option is even available in the Explorer toolbar menu too.
I have a .exe file converted from a .jar.
It is a command based application, so I have to start it with a batch script. Here is the batch script:
#echo off
cd C:\desktop\plant-text-adventure-win
start planttextadventure
pause
When I double click on the batch script, this happens: Windows could not find 'planttextadventure'. Please confirm if you have input the correct name and retry.
I don't know what is happening, I have no idea about cmd as I use Mac, but I can confirm I have an executable called planttextadventure.exe in a folder called plant-text-adventure-win.
You should test your batch file by executing it within a shell.
Simply enter within the start menu the command cmd to open up a shell. Within this black box you could now simply enter the commands from your batch script and lookout for some error message.
If you look at your script I would guess that the cd command (to change the current directory) is not correct. Maybe you should replace it with
cd %USERPROFILE%\Desktop\plant-text-adventure-win
because the desktop folder is on a default installation not directly under the root drive but within the user profile available.
Another solution to get this thing to work, is by opening the windows explorer, going to the .exe file you wish to execute and drag & drop the .exe file with a right mouse click onto the desktop.
Then a context menu appears and you select the option Create shortcut here.
I try to launch a self written autoit application called "KeyShortcuts.exe" using a batch called "launchMacros.bat". This applications provides keyboard shortcuts for various things and includes a GUI which shows me the available shortcuts.
launchMacros.bat:
start "MyMacros" "M:\applications\AutoIt\KeyShortcuts.exe"
The application does start and I'm able to use every shortcut but I'm not able to see the GUI.
If I start the application direct (double click on KeyShortcuts.exe) everythings works fine.
I also tryed starting the application using runas:
runas /user:REQUIREDUSERNAME /savecred "M:\applications\AutoIt\KeyShortcuts.exe"
Same problem here. Even right click -> "Run as administrator" doesnt worked.
Any suggestions?
If your batch file is in a different directory than KeyShortcuts.exe, you may need to specify the starting directory using the /D parameter for START.
Like this:
START "MyMacros" /D "M:\applications\AutoIt" "M:\applications\AutoIt\KeyShortcuts.exe"
Every batch file launched from Windows GUI create a new console window, run the batch file, then close. If you need this to be different, there's several ways:
Create a shortcut to CMD /K YOURBATCHFILE.BAT
Add a pause to your BAT file
Here's a demonstration of method 1:
New > Shortcut
Type the location of the item: C:\Windows\System32\CMD.EXE
Type the name for this shortcut: InsertYourNameHere
Click Finish
Right click on your Shortcut and go properties
Change Target to: C:\Windows\System32\CMD.EXE /K "InsertYourBatchFileName.BAT"
Click OK
Done, now you have a shortcut that opens a new console window and leaves it open whilst ir runs your batch file.
What I want to do is very simple, yet can't find the way to do it.
In my projects I have several .bat files (I know, I'm old) the perform some tasks like running SqlMetal, etc.
I just want to right-click the file and select "run" or something so the bat is executed. How do I do it?
Note: I know I can use Tools -> External Tools, but it's not what I'm looking for
If each project has a few batch files associated with it then why not include them in the project and add a new external tool and link it with a custom menu item to run the tool? This will give you a list of batch files in each project and a context menu command to run them. The only downside is that it isn't file type specific (it will let you run any file as a batch file).
Here's how to do it...
Create an external tool called "Run batch file"
Set the Command to: CMD.EXE
Set the Arguments to: /c "$(ItemPath)"
Set the Initial directory to: $(ItemDir)
Check the "use output window" checkbox and then Apply to create the command
Note where the new command appeared in the list of commands. The external commands are numbered from 1 starting below the divider bar. #1 is usually "Create GUID"
Now go to Tools -> Customize and select the commands tab.
Select the Context menu radio button and select "Project and Solution Context menus | Item" from the dropdown.
Now use "Add Command..." to add a new command
In the Categories list select "Tools"
From the commands select the "External Command #" that corresponds to the position of the "Run Batch file" custom command you noted the number of in step 5 above.
Move it to the correct position in the list add keyboard shortcuts etc.
Close the dialog.
Now right click on the batch file and you should see a "Run batch file" menu item. This will execute the batch file and show its output in the VS Output window.
Right click the batch file in the Solution Explorer
Select “Open With…” from the context menu
Click “Add…”
In the “Program name” textbox, enter powershell.exe
In the “Friendly name” textbox enter “PowerShell”
Select “Set As Default”
Click OK
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Check out the Open Command Line Visual Studio extension.
As per the description, it features:
Opening of a command line at the root of the project.
Support for all consoles such as CMD, PowerShell, Bash etc.
Syntax highlighting, Intellisense and execution of .cmd and .bat files.
For files in your solution, a context-menu button shows up.
Alternatively, the keyboard shortcut Shift+Alt+5 can be used when editing a batch file. This makes it really easy and fast to execute any batch file - even ones that are not part of your project.
Right-click a file in the Solution Explorer window, Open With, click the Add button to add your .bat files. Use %1 in your .bat to get the path to the selected file.
Couldn't get any of the above to quite work, but this did (VS 2019/2022):
Right click a .bat file in Solution Explorer and Open With...
Add...
Program: CMD.exe
Arguments: /c %1
Friendly name: Command
OK and Set as Default for double clicking of batch files to run from Solution Explorer as the default (or right click Open With... and select Command if you don't want it the default).
Merely a suggestion: This is a scenario which can be done with the VsCommandBuddy extension. The following configuration is an example:
{
"cmdname": "mk",
"title": "Run MK.BAT",
"description": "Run the MK bat file.",
"cwd": "$(SolutionDir)",
"filename": "cmd.exe",
"arguments": "/C mk.bat",
"async": false
}
You can assign shortkeys as well, so you can invoke your batch files with shortcut keys. Output comes in your output pane.