How to open multiple folders in a specific order using batch file? Windows 10

Currently I use the below script but it doesn't open the folders in the given order. It opens the folders in a random order.

@echo off start explorer "Folder 1 Path" start explorer "Folder 2 Path" start explorer "Folder 3 Path" start explorer "Folder 4 Path" 

4 Answers

You can use timeout command in middle of every command. Use timeout /t 2, if you want timeout to stay quiet, timeout /t 2 >nul. It should work. Just make your code like this:

@echo off start explorer "Folder 1 Path" timeout /t 2 >nul start explorer "Folder 2 Path" timeout /t 2 >nul start explorer "Folder 3 Path" timeout /t 2 >nul start explorer "Folder 4 Path" 

Thanks

Using a for loop listing in order would be...

@echo off for %%i in ( "%UserProfile%\Desktop" "%UserProfile%\Documents" "%UserProfile%\Downloads" "%UserProfile%\Pictures" )do start "" "%%~i" 

Chain it together on one line.

start "" "folder1"|start "" "folder2"|start "" "folder3" 

This is the .bat file content:

for /F "usebackq tokens=*" %%A in ("dirs.txt") do explorer %%A 

• You need to create the file dirs.txt which contains the full path of the directories respectively

This is an example of "dirs.txt" file content:

C:\Users\User\Desktop\1 C:\Users\User\Desktop\2 C:\Users\User\Desktop\3 C:\Users\User\Desktop\New Folder 

Edit1:

usebackq is used to handle folders with white spaces.