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On петък, Май 25 2007, Will wrote:

> Hi, there!
>
> I'd like to start some windows applications which constitute my
> working environment (e.g. firefox.exe or mysettings.bat) when I start
> emacs.
> How can I do that using the regular MS Windows CMD-shell?
> Is there also a way to set MS Windows environment variables in your
> .emacs or the called .bat file?

You can execute executables this way:

(shell-command "path to executable")

It can do it synchronously or a-synchronously. Find more information
in the manual.