Reboot to Command Prompt?

Hello, I need a suitable replacement for the old autoexec.bat
functionality in windows XP prefferably using WSH or possibly even some
old school batch files.

Here is the deal, a combination of Alemod and SpyAxe has struck
numerous computers that I am responsible for cleaning. At the moment
it seems to be a recurrent infection, even with the noadfear remover
and McAfee. I have figured out how to clean this completely and
permanently, and I even have a small series of batch files.

Problem is the first step HAS to be carried out in either normal mode,
or safe mode with networking. The second step HAS to be carried out in
safemode with a command prompt.

It may be possible to get around the second requirement if I can figure
out how to stop whatever is calling wininet.dll (I think it may be
winlogon, but it could very well be kernel.dll) clean it, and restart
it, in situ, but since I haven't figured a way to do that. Rebooting
into a command prompt seems to be the easier way.

So here is what this basically looks like

Step1

open ftp connection to mcafee and download and extract latest scan
engine.
delete a bunch of registry stuff
set windows to reboot directly to a command prompt.
When we get to a command prompt run step2

Step2

Make a copy of wininet.dll
Run AV scanner
Move copy of wininet on top of wininet.dll (scanner will clean the copy
but not the original)
Delete the stuff the scanner is missing
Clean a few more registry entries
Reboot normally

The only part of this I am having problems with is figuring out what I
need to do to get windows into a command prompt, and then running step2

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance

.

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