Question about a DOS command

At least I think it's a DOS command.
In the command prompt window I frequently ping my brokers web sight.
(I travel a lot and use a bunch of different ISP's)
Is there a way to create and save a simple command to: ping interactivebrokers.com ? Instead of having to type the whole thing every time.

I type about as well as your average Neanderthal and I'm just trying to make the process faster.

Any directions offered will need to be step by step, if I knew what I was doing I probably wouldn't have to ask.

TIA

 

Right click on your desktop
create new shortcut
paste cmd.exe /k ping interactivebrokers.com
next, next, finish

 

Now THAT'S what I'm talking about.

Absolutely perfect, thanks for the response.

 

Also consider getting a program called pingplotter, it will keep all the recent targets so you can just click on them and the output gives you a lot more information than just ping alone (its like a graphical traceroute tool)

http://www.pingplotter.com/

Apparently there is a freeware version too:

http://www.pingplotter.com/downloads/pngplt_1.exe

 

what do you think would be an easy desktop command icon to automatically backup all files under my documents to an external hard drive and overwrite the old files that are there?

 

Thanks, I'll take a look at it.

 

Maybe a copy or xcopy command either on its own or part of a batch file.