New Project! Lets see where this one goes...

Okay...
I'm new to this and haven't ever done any game programming as of yet so don't know yet where this project will go! :/ I am looking at the tools required to start and came across a good sounding tool called gameboy development kit (gbdk) i have downloaded this and extracted the files then put them straight off the C:\ directory as it stated in the readme but i need to get the .bat files to execute. I'm running windows 7 so from what i have learned so far is that autoexec.bat has been removed from later windows??:/ is this true? if so how do i get around this? any help would be greatly appreciated. Also so far this site seems pretty dead but overall looks like it could be a great site in the making.. is there anybody that still uses this site?

Thanks in advance.. zóné