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I fully agree with you, I simply missed out a line (well 2) during the copy/paste. I resubmitted my code in all it's glory, I hope it may help someone else who is looking to do something similar.
but i can confirm it is functioning as intended.

ah I missed out " :UACPrompt " and " :gotAdmin " originally so the goto function was having a hissy fit. I think.

Tis but a copy paste error (hopefully) the whole thing is saved in a folder as a .bat UAC and Directory setting: >nul 2>&1 "%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\cacls.exe" "%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\config\system" if '%errorlevel%' NEQ '0' ( echo Requesting administrative privileges... goto UAC...

with different programs, they're not all program1

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >nul 2>&1 "%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\cacls.exe" "%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\config\system" if '%errorlevel%' NEQ '0' ( echo Requesting administrative privileges... goto UACPromp...

Ok, ended up hardcoding silent installation commands for each program. I now have the batch file changing directory to current ( cd %~dp0), request administrator rights (So the UAC prompt doesnt come up for each installation, just once at the start) with each installation running along the lines of ...

The silent install is just a bonus, I don't need a fully functioning program, just the individual commands that would result in something like this when put together. anyhow, so far I have cd %~dp0 (to change the directory to the one the batch file is in) then I was thinking searching for *.exe's in...

Hi guys, I'm trying to create a batch file to install a bunch of programs silently. I know there are tools/other programming languages that would get this done very efficiently, but the point of the exercise is to learn DOS commands Basically, if a have a folder (e.g. apps) which contains folders fo...