How to run a c# console code while system is booting.

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How can we programmaticaly divert our boot process to DOS instead of Windows Desktop and execute our c# console application consecutively without stopping on DOS prompt. And the Operating System is Windows XP or Windows 7.0.

Posted 6-Apr-11 21:33pm

sk saini

Updated 6-Apr-11 21:34pm

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Kim Togo 7-Apr-11 3:51am

DOS does not exist any more on Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7. When you run "CMD" it is a Command Prompt, not DOS.

sk saini 7-Apr-11 4:01am

OK, but how to reach command prompt directly without booting to window and execute our code.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 7-Apr-11 4:46am

It's not OK.
You're booting to Windows anyway. There is no non-Windows anymore.
--SA

Toli Cuturicu 7-Apr-11 11:00am

Non-sense, imposibility, absurdity...
How old are you? Fifty?
This could only be done on Windows 98 or earlier!

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Kim Togo · Answer 1 · 2011-04-06T21:53:00

Solution 1

Take a look at registry setting:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

And the key "Shell" - Shell tells Windows what to start when login process is done.

~~One way, it to configure "Auto login" on Windows, and then have CMD startup when login process is completed.~~

Posted 6-Apr-11 21:53pm

Kim Togo

Updated 6-Apr-11 22:09pm

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sk saini 7-Apr-11 3:59am

It Should reach to command prompt as we do by selecting "Boot from Command prompt" option while booting.

sk saini 7-Apr-11 4:03am

It Should reach to command prompt as we do by selecting "Boot from Command prompt" option while booting.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 7-Apr-11 4:48am

CMD.exe is not a command prompt, this is just one of the application. It runs on Windows, not the other way around.
--SA