<code>AUTOEXEC.BAT</code> is a system file that was originally on DOS-type operating systems. It is a plain-text batch file in the root directory of the boot device. The name of the file is an abbreviation of "automatic execution", which describes its function in automatically executing commands on system startup; the filename was coined in response to the 8.3 filename limitations of the FAT file system family. In the autoexec.bat file one can execute every command being available either internally within the OS-specific command.com TSR or as an extra command (.com/.exe files)
Usage
<code>AUTOEXEC.BAT</code> is read upon startup by all versions of DOS, including MS-DOS version 7.x as used in Windows 95 and Windows 98. Windows Me only parses environment variables as part of its attempts to reduce legacy dependencies,
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