bat files explained... using a bat file is just like typing a bunch of stuff into the command prompt...
what is the command prompt? it's not just a legacy command line interface it is integrated into the windows api itself whenever application developers implicitly use its functions the user's hard drives are mappped to the driveletters C:\ the cd-rom drive would have, in the past, been D:\ these driveletters are the top level locations for directory paths a directory path is something like C:\music\blues\ technically, C:\music\blues\ and C:\music\blues have a different meaning without the \ at the end, c:\music\blues refers specifically to the directory itself c:\music\blues\ refers to the contents of the c:\music\blues directory in this case, the music folder or directory lives on C:\ and contains another folder or directory named blues. sometimes there are network paths or different aliased paths which dont really exist... ignoring network paths for now, lets talk about aliased paths as well as "Windows Explorer" "Windows Explorer" is somet