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Antonio, a first line ofworked for me in four less bytes, making it 287 bytes.

John A

Thanks for the replies. When I say plugin, I mean any file that has an extension different than .bat Let me qualify that with: that are not native to Windows. I have been working successfully on your behalf in another topic. Please see post by elzooilogico (Thank you) at "commands to change Cmd...

thefeduke wrote:Apologies to pstein if I am straying here.

Peter, I rescind my apology. It seems that I asked the right question of the right person in the best circumstances to meet my needs, and more, and hopefully your requirement.

elzooilogico wrote:Hope it helps.

This is more that everything that I asked for. It worked like a charm and I really do appreciate the resource link. I'll get lost there for a long time. I shall name my next-born script file after you. Thanks for a speedy and very valuable reply.

John A

Apologies to pstein if I am straying here. You may use powershell to change window and buffer size :setWin <columns> <lines> <buffercolumns> <bufferlines> SetLocal set "psCmd=powershell -Command "$host=get-host;$win=$host.ui.rawui;" set "psCmd=%pscmd%$size=$win.windowsize;$size.w...

I streamlined my last suggestion. Now there is no second script and you may name it anything you wish: @ECHO Off TITLE SUPER USER CD C:\Windows Color 4F @whoami /user /FO list set prompt=[Root] $p$g call Set "SuperUser=%~f0" doskey cla=Call "%SuperUser%" cla If /I "%~1."...

In response to your clarification, try: @ECHO Off TITLE SUPER USER CD C:\Windows Color 4F @whoami /user /FO list set prompt=[Root] $p$g call Set "SuperUser=%~dp0Super2User.bat" doskey cla=Call "%SuperUser%" Exit /B That script can be called anything, but the way that I coded it, ...

Can you please describe how you fixed it? PaperTronics I cannot say that I "fixed" anything. I am only watching behavior, now. It appears similar whether I start the script by START command, by double-click in File Explorer, by a desktop shortcut or by storing the script file on the Deskt...

ShadowThief wrote:Try changing the [1] to [0].

I did not want to leave this hanging. Eventually, I refreshed my copy of your code.
After a phase of sometimes getting a display of false,false and true,true with unpredictable results, it seems to be behaving and even worked from the started prompt.

John A.

# You wouldn't ordinarily need the [1], but running the script inherently opens a window, # and you want to do things with the window that that window opens. $h = (Get-Process | where {$_.Path -eq $application_path})[1].MainWindowHandle Unfortunately, I tried, and a normal window opened, but I got ...

So your suggested registry values seems only to be the default values. Correct choice of words. If you right-click the prompt title-bar you can choose Defaults or Properties. Defaults should match the registry. Properties should match current prompt and will change as you re-dimension the window. T...

I have had good luck using: Echo.Refer to Post subject: ^"Cmdwiz - cmd helper tools^" by misol101 Echo.at http://www.dostips.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=48971#p48971 Echo.for download instructions. Here is an example of use: If "%BufSw%" EQU "1" CmdWiz SetBufferSize %ScrB...

aGerman wrote:I don't know if this is a malfunction of the forum software or rather a problem of the Chrome browser.

FWEIW, Ctrl-c updated the clipboard for me using Win7Pro-Firefox and Win10Home-Firefox but not on Win10Pro-Chrome.

John A.

I can't confirm that. Changes of %PATH% (regardless if set by PATH or SET) are out of scope using ENDLOCAL as soon as you left the sub-environment where it was changed. Steffen Thanks for answering. I now know that most of my problems came from not forcing substitution of variables when using the P...

All of my previous attempts over the last couple of years to manipulate a flexible testing environment seem to have failed because the complexity of my solutions made them unmanageable. Managing the search order did not seem to be worth it. PUSHP is to the PATH as PUSHD is to the Current Directory. ...

Was I supposed to put the 2003 date somewhere in the batch file you provided? OK Val. Let's do it that way. I edited my most recent post to add some code. You can update the year value where indicated and just open the script file. It will also still run from a DOS prompt but you and I no longer ne...