mathematica start front end and eval notebook from command line

Question

Is there a way to start up a mathematica front end (GUI) from a (Windows) command prompt and have it eval a notebook without further user action?

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Answer 1

If this is for a specific notebook, have you tried setting the relevant cells in the notebook to have the property InitializationCell? Or do you want to do this with any notebook? If the latter, Sjoerd's answer works better.