Run a Command Prompt command from Desktop Shortcut

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Create A Shortcut That Opens The Command Prompt & Runs A Command:

Yes! You can create a shortcut to cmd.exe with a command specified after it. Alternatively you could create a batch script, if your goal is just to have a clickable way to run commands.

Steps:

  1. Right click on some empty space in Explorer, and in the context menu go to “New/Shortcut”.

  2. When prompted to enter a location put either:

“C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /k your-command” This will run the command and keep (/k) the command prompt open after.

or

“C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /c your-command” This will run the command and the close (/c) the command prompt.

Notes:

  • Tested, and working on Windows 8 – Core X86-64 September 12 2014

  • If you want to have more than one command, place an “&” symbol in between them. For example: “C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /k command1 & command2“.

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