Command Prompt Portable

Okay. This might be long, but I can't really point you to a site for it so you'll just have to bare with me.

First of all: You could keep it open by adding "command.com" or just "command" to the end, but that would leave it in oldschool mode, which isn't very good. (Sidenote, if the order seems weird, it's because I'm not typing it in order. Does that even make sense? Whatever.) I have a batch down below as an example of a customized DOS, and in it I solve the problem by having it start itself in a new window, then changing things. The original window closes, but the new one doesn't.

If you want a custom banner, colors, etc. on your own PC, you don't even need an exe file. Just make a good batch, and either use it, or a link to it. (You can hide the batch, even going as far as making it a hidden-system file, and use a shortcut to edit and run it) Mine looks like this (actually I don't use one, but I might fiddle around with this one a little and start using it)

@echo off
If "1%1"=="1Revan" goto A
start %~nx0 Revan
goto end
:A
color 02
title Revan
ECHO  -----------------------------------------------
echo ^| RRRRR     EEEEEE    V    V     A     NN     N ^|
echo ^| R    R    E         V    V    A A    N N    N ^|
echo ^| R    R    E         V    V   A   A   N  N   N ^|
echo ^| RRRRRR    EEEEEE    V    V   AAAAA   N  N   N ^|
echo ^| R    RR   E          V   V   A   A   N   N  N ^|
echo ^| R     R   E           V V    A   A   N    N N ^|
echo ^| R     R   EEEEEE       V     A   A   N     NN ^|
ECHO  -----------------------------------------------
pause>nul
:end

It works fine, and you don't need a program to start it for you.

If you insist on using an application, CPP isn't really very useful. You're better off just using a simple C program. Does pretty much the same, and takes up less space. You can even give it an icon with ResHacker. If you can figure out how, I could give it to you. (I've never sent programs on the internet lol. All I usually use is DOS and HTML. Which are both text-based.)

"Where did...CPP...come from..."
As far as I can tell, all it really does is launch that batch file. Which, as I've already said, a simple C program can do just as good a job of. All you need an exe for is launching the batch from the PortableApps menu, because you can only launch exe files from there. Other than that, it seems pretty useless to me :/

I probably missed some questions, it's like 2 am *yawn* so if you need any more help, with this or any DOS, just ask. (I know some really awesome tricks)

Maybe you should research what it does and what else is included first. The launcher is only about 70K and, unlike yours, it optionally lets an end-user update the completion character in the registry back and forth to temporarily enable auto-complete on machines where it is off and to also be able to start in a specific directory when started up from FreeCommander or other utilities. The rest of the files are for PortableApps.com Format (appinfo.ini and appinfo.ico), help files and associated images and the source code for the launcher and for the multilingual installer. All together it comes to 294K.

Adding it to the Explorer right-click menu is a bad idea and causes portability problems.

In the future, please make a SINGLE forum post about an issue you'd like to discuss. You triple-posted your original complaint as a post here, a comment in another forum thread and a comment on a news story before I removed the other two.