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You may recall, at the beginning of the course, I briefly introduced you to batch files.

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This was when you clicked on an icon on your desktop and your browser opened up with the corresponding

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websites or websites you specified within the batch file itself.

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But what I would like to do now is to go into a little bit more detail with batch files, and I'd like

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to show you how you can start applications with a batch file on your computer.

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Now, once you've created this batch file, I'll show you how you can get this batch file to start automatically

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when you start your computer.

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OK, so like I said, I want to start applications with a batch file, so to do this, you have to get

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the target information.

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So one way to do is I'm just going to show my icons on my desktop.

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And the application I want my batch file to start is going to be Photoshop, but I can see I don't think

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I actually have a shortcut on my desktop.

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So what I'm going to do is I'm just going to go to the magnifying glass here.

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And just right click on Photoshop here.

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I'll open its file location.

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I'm going to right click on it.

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I'm just going to create a shortcut.

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OK, so this recommending I put it on the desktop, so I'll just say yes to that, and I think I'm also

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going to do this with Illustrator as well.

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Another program that I use quite a lot, so I'll come to show more options.

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I'll create another shortcut, and I'll just click on, yes.

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OK, so here's Illustrator, and here's Photoshop.

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So, like I said, you need the target information so you can just right click on the application.

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I go to properties and it's this information here.

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So just click inside of there and hold down control and a to select all of it, our right click and

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then click on copy.

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And they can just get rid of this next thing now is to open up the notepad, so goes magnifying glass

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and I'll open up my notepad.

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Now, just like in the first batch file we created.

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The code is pretty much the same.

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There's just a few differences.

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In fact, I think there's only one difference that we have to make.

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So it starts with at ECHO.

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Then type of.

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Start and this is the big difference here.

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You put in to double quotes.

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Move along, put in two double quotes again.

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And then in between these two quotes is where the target information goes.

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So just hold down control and press V and I can see I've ended up with too many quotes yet, so I'll

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just get rid of the extra ones.

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Then I'll go to file save as and I'm going to go to my desk top.

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I just remember that you have to give the dot bat extension and set this to all files and then click

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Save.

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So now I'll get rid of this, and if I were to double click on this now, hopefully Photoshop should

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start up.

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OK, so that works, okay, so I'll just get rid of this.

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Now, if I want to add Illustrator as well, I could just right click go to properties and this is already

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selected, so I'll just right click, go to copy.

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Get rid of this here.

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I'll go to my application.

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Sorry, my batch file, and I'll go to show more options.

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And I'll click on Edit.

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Now, unlike when we created the batch file to open up the various websites within your Chrome browser,

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you can't just put another two quotes in here at the end and then add your other target information,

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but rather you have to go underneath type and start.

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Put another two quotes in, and I'm going to go ahead and hit control plus v because I remember the

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last time the double quotes were already there, a whole down control press asked to save this.

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And remember, it's already saved us a batch file.

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So we already have that dot bat extension and I can get rid of this now.

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And if I double click on this, Photoshop and Illustrator should start now.

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One thing to be aware of with this is you don't want to overload your computer.

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So, for instance, Photoshop and Illustrator are quite heavy programs in terms of the amount of processing

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power they use, but my computer's quite up-to-date so it can handle it.

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But that's definitely something you want to be aware of.

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All right, so the next thing now is to show you how you can get this batch file to start automatically

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when you turn on your computer.

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Now one thing to be aware of here, and I've kind of just touched on it a second ago.

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This type of batch file can use quite a lot of processing power.

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And when you first turn on your computer, it already has quite a few things to think about.

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Now, usually, Windows has got quite a good management system, and it just does things well, I suppose

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one step at a time.

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But you will find that your boot up will be quite slow.

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If you're asking it to open up maybe various batch files with different websites and applications and

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things like that.

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So it's good to just be aware of that.

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All right.

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So how do we do this?

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Well, let's be honest with you, it's really straightforward.

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You can hold down the windows key and press are on your keyboard, and this will open up the run command.

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You can also just go to the magnifying glass here and then go to search and type in run command or just

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run.

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But this is already open.

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And all you want to do is just type in Shell.

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Colon.

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Start up, then click OK.

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This will open up, all you have to do is just select the batch file you want, start up to open for

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you, right click and will copy it.

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And then just paste it into here.

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Now you could do the exact same thing with the batch file that opens up the various websites within

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your Chrome browser.

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But with regard to using shall start up to start applications, there's no point in actually creating

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a batch file.

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All you would have to do.

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Just go to the application, right click go to copy and just paste in the application here.

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And that's all you have to do to get these applications to start up.

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But I don't need Photoshop start up when I turn on my computer, so I'm going to press delete.

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OK, so that's what I wanted to show you with regard to batch files.

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Just two things to take away from this.

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Just remember, if you want to edit your batch file, you can just go to the batch file itself.

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Right click Go to show more options and then go to edit.

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And also the other thing was, if you're not particularly good at remembering your code or what is known

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as syntax, then just keep these two batch files on your computer for future use.