An equivalent of .bashrc for the windows cmd.exe shell

Tired of the "cd" command in windows refusing to navigate to folders on other drives? Put this in the [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor] AutoRun key:

c:\cmdauto.cmd

This will cause the given script to be executed each time a cmd.exe window is opened. I found out about that thanks to this superuser.com post.

Now put this in c:\cmdauto.cmd

@echo off
doskey cd=pushd $*

The doskey command creates aliases, here overriding the behavior of "cd".