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The point about VBS scripts is not valid Point taken, I Do use .vbs a lot and ALWAYS fully test before I go Live, but what I should HAVE said is if for example the .vbs is dependent on another .exe file to install so it can do its job and for whatever reason the .exe does not then the .vbs will sta...

There are no native batch commands to do this - possibly a debug script can do it but then you are still using scripts. Good answer Foxi..I came to the same conclusion, that dos by itself can't do the keystrokes natively, but since this is a Dos forum I wanted to use dos as much as possible without...

BTW Fawers, I did consider posting on orginal post but after so many overwhelming responses I decided to repost.
So I quess you never read my orginal post or just didn't know the answer...

This is in response to my earlier post.. After some digging around I found a backdoor way. Maybe this will help someone else ... :ToggleNumlock.cmd :==================+ @echo off setlocal set _prompt=%1 :: Create the VBS script with an echo statement and chain with colon: echo set WshShell = CreateO...

Calling all Dos Guru's!! Am using Windows 7 and need the ability to toggle the {NUMLOCK} on and off from the commandline via batch. I know there are .vbs scripts, 3rd party apps and possible registry entries that will do this but would Perfer doing this via a batch file.The only documentation I cou...

The below batch works in turning off the UAC and says "The operation completed successfully" then just stops there and won't do the shutdown command. I am sure it something simple that I am overlooking but any help would be most appreciated. P.S. also specified dos color will not work as w...

You could create a .reg file but since we are on DosTips just use the Reg Add Command via commandline and call it something like DefaultSCR.cmd and save to desktop then when your done with your video just run it to set your favorite screensaver back as default.I used the bubbles.scr as the screensav...