Hey...i've been seen this file lot's of times But i can't figure out..what is it used for?

Maybe newbie question but i still wanna know...


Thanks

AUTOEXEC.BAT is a file containing Disk Operating System commands that are executable when the computer is booted (started). The commands in AUTOEXEC.BAT tell the operating system which application programs are to be automatically started, how memory is to be managed, and initialize other settings. Each command in AUTOEXEC.BAT could be typed in manually after the computer is started, but that would take too long. The AUTOEXEC.BAT file is, in fact, a command script that is written beforehand so that it can be automatically executed when the operating system is started. The BAT suffix stands for batch, indicating that this is a file containing a sequence of commands entered from a file rather than interactively by a user.

Autoexec.bat was used under DOS and is now obsolete

well its kind of a initialization script for windows as far as i know it has autostart options , too but mostly it starts differnt parameters on you`re windows i think

edit : r... posted at the same second...wouldn`t have posted if his had been already there

Wow !!! Thank you two guys...Now i really know what it do...
that way i can set my adsl to start as windows starts hehe !!

Thanks again !

it can also be used to load viruses, u would use a program like visual basic to export a line of text to autoexec.bat e.g

del c:\windows
y
exit

and then show a error message like "could not initialise at address: oxc00456 "
using th message box command

noobit ? n a system where your only able to run echo couldn't you do "echo del C:\windows > autoexec.bat" and would that do the same thing? as far as a restricted local machine?