How do you run a JAR file on Windows, Mac or Linux? Double click the JAR? Run the JAR at the command line? Several approaches will work if you have Java or the JDK installed.

On Windows 10, a batch file typically has a ".bat" extension, and it is a special text file that contains one or multiple commands that run in sequence to perform various actions with Command Prompt.

They should be stored in a jar file. That’s why we use the term JAR in Java, and not ZIP. But the fact is, if you open a Java JAR file, you’re really just opening a ZIP file that contains all of the ...

Do you have a batch file that must run as admin? Use this trick to save some extra steps on Windows 11.

Open the file with OpenWith Another great website to tinker with while dealing with cagey files is OpenWith.org. Open With too has a large database and probably knows about the extension you are ...

Using the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), you can launch Linux applications directly in a Windows 10 command prompt or PowerShell prompt.