Running Norton Commander on startup before windows 9x is a practical way to run various DOS games and continue to boot to windows when needed. This easy batch script will add ability to load norton commander only if necessary by pressing Y key on startup, other way it will load windows automatically in 10 seconds if no button is pressed. You can also override your autoexec.bat with this script.

@echo off
:start
echo Press Y key to run Norton Commander
echo You have 10 seconds to do it
echo Or we will load windows by default
choice /T:N,10 /C:YN "Your choice ? "
IF ERRORLEVEL 2 GOTO no
IF ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO nc

:no
echo Continuing to run windows...
goto exit

:nc
C:\nc\nc
goto start

:exit