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Welcome to the Matrix in Command Prompt

Step 5Opening CMD without "run"

So your school admin blocked the Run from the start menu?

Here is how to open command prompt without run!

  • Open up a new notepad document. AKA a text document.
  • Now type in start command.com

start command.com

  • Now click Save
  • Save it as cmd.bat
  • Save it to the Desktop
  • Click the icon that showed up, and command prompt should open now.

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11 comments
Oct 27, 2010. 10:00 AMnarutopspgamer1 says:
thinks but my tech admin blocked all use of cmd prompt you would not know how to get past is without hacking would you and thinks for the echo code cooldog and twenglish1
Feb 5, 2012. 6:22 PMcoreman1530 says:
aye man ive got admin restrictions at my school this may work no guarantees but the way i bypass it:
right click on the desktop select new text document
then you type (command.com) without the parentheses
then you save the file to the desktop and make sure that when you save the file you save it as .bat instead of.txt
it will show up on your desktop and you open it just like you would any other application and command prompt should open
Oct 12, 2011. 9:08 AMjacobdaniel says:
just go to accesories and find command prompt/cmd
Jan 22, 2011. 5:38 PMshadowviolinist says:
If you have Microsoft Word 2007, enable the developer tab.
Under 'Code' , Click on Macros.
enter the macro name as 'hi'

When it opens, on the left, double click on the document you opened on Microsoft (i.e. Document 1)
Then, type this in:
Sub hi()
Shell ("command.com")
End Sub

Click Play.
Jul 14, 2010. 4:51 AMzombiefire says:
just flashes on and off
Apr 25, 2010. 7:13 AMpanneerselvam21 says:
thanks a lot brother
its really very helpfull
Oct 22, 2007. 12:43 PMpieman says:
try this it looks pretty cool color 0a @echo off cls :loop echo welcome to the matrix goto loop just save it as a .bat
Feb 25, 2008. 5:10 PMcooldog says:
also try this color 0a @echo off cls :loop 1010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101 goto loop
Mar 6, 2008. 12:03 PMtwenglish1 says:
you forgot to put echo before the 1010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010
Sep 18, 2007. 9:12 PMsilver- says:
is there any possible way to repeat it? isn't the command "repeat ..."? so that Matrix would keep on going and going..... and just for the heck of it, is there a way to disable the closing feature on DOS so you have to look at "welcome to the matrix" all the time? =)
Nov 3, 2007. 3:39 PMzand123 says:
try this @echo off cls :loop cls echo Welcome to the Matrix Welcome to the Matrix Welcome to the Matrix Welcome to theWelcome to the Matrix Welcome to the Matrix Welcome to the Matrix Welcome to theWelcome to the Matrix Welcome to the Matrix Welcome to the Matrix Welcome to theWelcome to the Matrix Welcome to the Matrix Welcome to the Matrix Welcome to the color 0a goto loop add more 'Welcome to the Matrix Welcome to the Matrix Welcome to the Matrix Welcome to the' to make it look better
Sep 22, 2007. 11:39 AMdeansep says:
I think that would be cool
Oct 8, 2007. 10:43 AMcyberassassin says:
you can do this better with a .bat file, just open notepad and paste this in @echo off cls :loop cls echo Welcome to the Matrix goto loop and then save it as matrix.bat
Oct 29, 2007. 4:41 AMDrCoolSanta says:
You don't want the cls in the loop, do you, just add the color line before it aas well.
Sep 3, 2007. 12:14 PMarmageddon says:
you could just type in start. you don't need command.com.
Sep 1, 2007. 8:46 PMT3Hprogrammer says:
Isn't it cmd.exe on these new machines?

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