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Thanks for that script.

Regards
Alan

Wouldn't a simple "if exist" work? rd "whatever folder" >nul 2>nul if errorlevel 1 ( if exist "whatever folder" ( echo rd failed and the folder exists -- FROZEN ) else ( echo rd failed and folder doesn't exist -- ABSENT ) ) Before I was given the secret of using "...

In HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Nls\CodePage you will find OEMCP for the default ASCII codepage (the cmd works with) and ACP for the default ANSI codepage (used for data into the registry). You should always change the codepage to ANSI before reading data in the registry and ...

Many thanks

I will finish and release my script in English - more testing needed,
Then I will try to incorporate your registry information in version 2.

Regards
Alan

I suggest you try this :- set /p command="Enter a command: " ECHO %COMMAND% %command% Launch CMD.EXE, run the script and enter whatever you chosen command is, the right click the display and choose "Select All", then hit ENTER to copy the screen to the paste buffer. Then reply he...

Thanks for feedback and information. I am working on an application that is installed/removed locally by the user. I do not envisage any central rollout/deployment. I released a "Beta" version of my script a few months ago, and a German (not you) reported a problem due to my searching for ...

I have used, but found an unfortunate side effect (that it may permanently add folders), with MD %yourPath%" & RD %yourPath%" I would greatly appreciate a similarly simple test without any side effect. My un-installation script has a long list of folder structures, and for each a set o...

Thank you for the explanation. You have now convinced me to adopt your style unless I need to see the "SET" variables as a result of running a script. I like your phrase "Unintended effects are the result", but my absolute all-time favourite has to be "The results are undefi...

I notice many solutions here commence with the line @echo off &setlocal In the past I have only ever used setlocal for the benefit of delayed expansion, and normally I try to avoid delayed expansion where possible and never consider a setlocal. I can see an advantage that any new environment var...

Thank you so much for the solution to my problem.
That part of my script is now working fine.

Also thank you for the explanation of how the %%%% are progressively stripped down.

Alan

Thank you so much - you nailed it ! ! My only language skill is, in French, to :- Open the door (but I cannot now remember which gender) and to throw a chair out the Window. I never got a GCE 'O' level for that - but I think standards have dropped since then ! You on the other hand have a far better...

I need to do something like CALL :SET_CD "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\The rest of the path" with the SPECIAL feature that the code held in :SET_CD must :- expand the environmental variable and change the current directory accordingly ; set a flag to denote success or failure, and upon failure set CD...

I tried testing this code on Notepad.exe in place of OpenContacts.exe and the /WAIT ... Perhaps you are comparing Apples with Oranges ! If you issue the command "START /?" you get lots of obscure information. "START /WAIT ...." is very much a "maybe does" / "may d...

....................... REM ver | find "XP" > nul REM if %ERRORLEVEL% == 0 ( REM ##find the line beginning with "User-friendly Name:" and set the value behind the colon to %%B FOR /F "tokens=5* delims= " %%A IN ('netsh int ip show interface ^| findstr /B /I /c:"Us...

I know nothing of FORFILES etc. but my attention is focussed on this snippet "-pC:\Documents and Settings\admin\Desktop\New Folder" To avoid problems with embedded spaces the file path/name need encapsulating with quotes. Just possibly this might work if the -p argument is confusing the qu...