I wouldn't be surprised to learn I'm the only living person still using doskey. Yes, in April 2013, and on W7. I autoload a file with macro definitions in cmd prompt window, and this works great for programs I want at my fingertips but don't want to clutter PATH with (or desktop with shortcuts, or create a .bat/.cmd etc; I do realise there are other ways to do that, but my solution works good enough since DOS times). The unfortunate thing with doskey aliases is you cannot use them as pipe recipient, they have to start at the line start. On the other hand, they can accept parameters.