Is there a way to launch 2 programs with one shortcut?

Question

I use thunderbird and to check my yahoo mail I must first launch Y-POPs and than launch thunderbird so it can retrieve my Yahoo mail. but its a hassle to do both, is there a way to do both at once(by launching one program)?
Maybe some notepad text that can launch both?

I'm on windows XP,

Answer 1

try this batch. Open up a new note and copy the following script. Then save is as anyname.bat

start "" "C:\Program Files\\program_1.exe"
start "" "%ProgramFiles%\\program_2.e xe"

or...

anyname.cmd

@echo off
cd /d "E:\Program Files\"
start /high /MIN program_1.exe
echo.
cd /d "F:\Program Files\"
start program_2.exe
cls
exit

Answer 2

No,it cant be done.Sorry!