How to prevent the command prompt from closing after execution?
Problem
My problem is that in Windows, there are command line windows that close immediately after execution. To solve this, I want the default behavior to be that the window is kept open. Normally, this behavior can be avoided with three methods that come to my mind: Putting a line after batch programs to prompt the user to press a key before exiting Running these batch files or other command line manipulating tools (even service starting, restarting, etc. with or anything similar) within (Start - Run - cmd.exe) Running these programs with like this: But there are some other cases in which the user: Runs the program the first time and doesn't know that the given program will run in Command Prompt (Windows Command Processor) e.g. when running a shortcut from Start menu (or from somewhere else), OR Finds it a little bit uncomfortable to run cmd.exe all the time and doesn't have the time/opportunity to rewrite the code of these commands everywhere to put a pause after them or avoid exiting expl…
Error Output
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Command Processor\AutoRun HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Command Processor\AutoRun
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Fix for: How to prevent the command prompt from closing after execution?
I have a solution which can only apply on and files: Open and go to each one of: Now change the "Default key value" to . Now, every batch script window will stay open after its execution. Note that this is like using , meaning that another CMD instance will be launched into the parent one. I couldn't find how to overwrite the first argument. You can also do so with , but now it'll show an empty console box if the executable has a GUI.
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